Buy this book on-line HODGSON, ANTONIA: : THE DEVIL IN THE MARSHALSEA: Murder Stalks The Debtors' PrisonLONDON.HODDER & STOUGHTON,2014. ISBN 9781444775419.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn. [Complete number line 1.] FINE-/FINE. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,matt,b/w pictorial illustrated dw/dj panels; front panel with capitalised,glossy reddish-brown+black lettered part+sub-title and capitalised,glossy black-lettered author name and other black-lettered critic's review (Jeffrey Deaver's); spine/backstrip with glossy reddish-brown+white lettered title,capitalised,glossy white-lettered author and publisher's capitalised white lettered colophon to foot of same,rear panel with b/w street map of Marshalsea environs and 3 critics' black+reddish-brown lettered reviews - the review in black,the critics' names in reddish-brown.Negligible shelf-wear,bumping, creasing to edges and corners – a single tiny, tiny fore-edge nick with fold back crease to pp3/4 - else no other nicks,tears or splits present.Top edges partially aged/toned towards headband and extending a couple of inches towards the fore-edges remainder bright and clean,fore-edges clean without foxing/spotting; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound -near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips,appears unread other than my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean, sharp-cornered,original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt lettered spine/backstrip,and immaculate plain white endpapers. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,x-xivpp+4-384pp [paginated] includes historical note,a Prologue, Pts 1-3 - Pt 1 comprising 2 chapters,Pt 2 in I-V sections comprising 22 chapters,and Pt 3 with 3 chapters respectively,The history behind the book pages,a Select bibliography includes Contemporary+Secondary Sources and as last two pages,Acknowledgements.Plus [unpaginated] half-title+ title pages,a dedication,epigrams (2 - Daniel Defoe and from John Grano - a debtor's prison diary,1728-29),individual Pts and Sections separator pages,and to the rear 2pp blanks.
Visually the exterior appearance is more than acceptable, and even internally,the book is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation.It is only the minimal faults described that prevents a slightly higher grading overall for the book. Despite them,it really is still an exceptional, exemplary copy for its cleanliness and brightness.
London,1727 - and Tom Hawkins is about to fall from his heaven of card games, brothels and coffee-houses into the hell of a debtors' prison. The Marshalsea is a savage world of its own, with simple rules: those with family or friends who can lend them a little money may survive in relative comfort. Those with none will starve in squalor and disease. And those who try to escape will suffer a gruesome fate at the hands of the gaol's rutheless governor and his cronies.
The trouble is,Tom Hawkins has never been good at following rules - even simple ones. And the recent grisly murder of a debtor,Captain Roberts,has brought further terror to the gaol. While the Captain's beautiful widow cries for justice, the finger of suspicion points only one way: to the sly, enigmatic figure of Samuel Fleet. Some call Fleet a devil, a man to avoid at all costs. But Tom Hawkins is sharing his cell. Soon, Tom's choice is clear: get to the truth of the murder - or be the next to die.
A twisting mystery,a dazzling evocation of early 18th Century London,'THE DEVIL IN THE MARSHALSEA' is a thrilling debut novel full of intrigue and suspense.
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