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The Jingler’s Luck

by John Pilkington Book 6 in the The Thomas the Falconer Mysteries series.

First published 2006

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Thomas Finbow travels to London on a delicate private errand for Lady Margaret, who wants him to persuade Sir Robert to abandon an infatuation with a woman at court. The mission is overtaken when a mutilated young woman's body is recovered from the Thames and Thomas becomes entangled in a sequence of disappearances, corpse theft and political intrigue.

With the help of the streetwise Ben Mallam, Thomas moves between the court and London's criminal districts while a scheme emerges that could affect the succession to Elizabeth I. His own arrest makes the inquiry more dangerous and forces him to gamble on allies whose motives are uncertain. The sixth Falconer novel returns the series to the capital and links murder to the anxiety surrounding the ageing queen's eventual successor.

Historical Periods

Elizabethan London1558–1603

Genres

Crime & Mystery Historical Thriller

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