Person Or Persons Unknown
From Amazon.com: The place: London; the time: 1770, when the wealthy denizens of the city walked through London's streets with scented handkerchiefs over their noses to disguise the stench of the poor. As if filthy streets, impoverished beggars, [... more]
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Experiment In Treason
Skillful Blend of Fact and Fiction: Like most other reviewers of "An Experiment in Treason," I have also read all of the earlier books in this series. I too found this one to be one of the best in the series. Bruce Alexander (who are you, [... more]
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Color Of Death
From Amazon.com: Sir John Fielding, a blind 18th-century London judge, is back in his Bow Street offices along with his young assistant Jeremy in this seventh installment in Bruce Alexander's well-crafted, intricately plotted series. When a crime spree [... more]
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Death Of A Colonial
Great historical who-done-it!: I get a huge kick out of Bruce Alexander's mysteries involving a blind judge and his young sidekick. I've read a lot of history from that time period, and though Alexander doesn't overload the books with a lot of rather... [... more]
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Jack Knave And Fool
From Amazon.com: Bruce Alexander's books have the same addictive attention to detail as Patrick O'Brian's stories about the British navy. In fact, there really was a Sir John Fielding (1721-1780; would the Library of Congress lie?), the blind London [... more]
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Price Of Murder
enjoyable but lacks suspense: Even though I didn't think that the last few Sir John Fielding mystery novels have been as good as the first four mysteries in the series ("Blind Justice," "Murder in Grub Street," Watery Grave" & [... more]
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Blind Justice
What it should be.: Good fun historical fiction mystery. Not as weighty as Follet's Pillars of the Earth, but doesn't need to be. It is not timeless literature, but an engrossing adventure with great historical detail for added flavor. An excellent plane [... more]
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Les audiences de sir john
Chronique amazon.fr: Londres, 1768. Le jeune Jeremy Proctor, orphelin de treize ans, débarque à la capitale. Il est aussitôt victime de malfrats qui le traînent devant le tribunal de Bow Street. C'est là que siège [... more]
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Watery Grave
Watery Grave: Watery Grave is the continued story (the third installment) of the story of Jeremy Proctor and his mentor Sir John Fielding. One does not have to read the second book (I hadn't) to understand the events. Alexander's writing and plotting [... more]
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