Author: CLYNES, MICHAEL
Title: The Gallows Murders - Being the Fifth Journal of Sir Roger Shallot Concerning Certain Wicked Conspiracies and Horrible Murders Perpetrated in the Reign of King Henry VIII
Description: New York, St. Martin's Press. 1996, First Edition. (ISBN: 0312146051). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. First US Edition, First Printing. Set in 1523, mysterious and grisly murders are occurring among the hangmen of London, and Cardinal Thomas Wolsey has only two people to turn to : his beloved nephew, Benjamin Daunbey, and Daunbey's faithful servant, Roger Shallot, who reluctantly agree to go to London to unmask a blackmailer and end the macabre murders. They enter the murky Tudor underworld, the ghastly world of the Gallowsmen, and at the same time they must confront the mystery of the princes of the Tower of London. NOT EX LIB D4E. Fine/Fine.

Keywords: Historical Fiction, Henry VIII, Cardinal Wolsey, Benjamin Daunbey, Tudor Fiction, Gallowsmen, Princes in the Tower of London 0312146051


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