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A John Grey Historical M, Fiction, Crime & mystery
A John Grey historical mystery.
'Witty and amazing, L. C. Tyler has a wicked sense of humour' M. C. Beaton
1665, and the Great Plague has London in its grip. Where better, then, to hide a murdered man than among the corpses on their way to the Plague pit?
When a supposed Plague victim is found with a knife in his back, John Grey, now a successful lawyer, is called in to investigate. The dead man was known to be carrying a compromising letter from the Duke of York to the French ambassador. Now the letter has vanished and Secretary of State Lord Arlington wants it.
But Arlington is not the only one trying to recover the letter. Somebody has killed once trying to obtain it - and is prepared to kill again. Grey must set off on a journey through Plague-ravaged England to fulfil his commission and keep himself safe from his enemies - if the Plague doesn't get him first...
Praise for L.C. Tyler
'Tyler juggles his characters, story wit and clever one liners with perfect balance' The Times
'A historical thriller, but one written with tongue firmly in cheek . . . Tyler is a witty writer, and this third outing for Grey is great fun' - Sunday Times
'An exciting, well-plotted and brilliantly witty historical mystery' For Winter Nights
Praise for The Plague Road
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Praise for LC Tyler: [the author] juggles his characters, story wit and clever one liners with perfect balance. author] juggles his characters, story wit and clever one liners with perfect balance. - The Times
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A historical thriller, but one written with tongue firmly in cheek . . . Tyler is a witty writer, and this third outing for Grey is great fun - Sunday Times
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Tyler at his entertaining best . . . a Restoration romp delivered with aplomb and verbal artistry, a delicious slice of history in all its dark, dank and deadly reality, and a veritable stage show of witty one-liners wrapped up in an enthralling mystery adventure - Lancashire Evening Post
L C Tyler
L. C. Tyler was born in Essex and educated at Jesus College Oxford and City University. His comic crime series featuring author-and-agent duo Ethelred Tressider and Elsie Thirkettle has twice been nominated for Edgar Allan Poe Awards and he won the Goldsboro Last Laugh Award with Herring in the Library. His latest crime series is set in the seventeenth century and features lawyer John Grey.
He has lived and worked all over the world, but has more recently been based in London and Sussex.
To find out more about L. C. Tyler visit www.lctyler.com or follow him on twitter @lenctyler.
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