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The Emperor's Assassin: The Emperor's Assassin: Memoirs of a Bow Street Runner Mass market paperbound - 2003
by T. F. Banks
The sequel to the critically-acclaimed "The Thief Taker" finds Bow Street Runner Henry Morton investigating a murder of a Frenchwoman, the mistress of a count, that has Napoleon himself at the heart of the matter. Original.
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For twenty years, England and France have been at war. Now the war has come home...On a sunny July day in 1815, Plymouth Sound is crowded with boats vying for a view of England's great battleship HMS Bellerophon. For aboard the vessel is the stout little Frenchman who threw the world into chaos. In London, some people clamor for Napoleon's execution, others for his exile, and still others for a civil trial on English soil. For one humble London detective, the debate has turned deadly. Bow Street Runner Henry Morton has a murder to solve--and Napoleon himself is at the heart of the matter.The victim is a Frenchwoman, the mistress of a count. Soon Morton is racing through a demimonde of French expatriates, Bonapartists, fanatical Royalists, and one very dangerous, drunken petty crook. From an exotic London brothel to a scene of carnage on a Dartmoor farm, the detective enters a covert war over Napoleon's fate. And amid the betrayal, deception, and murder, Morton will face a waterloo of his own.From the Paperback edition.
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For twenty years, England and France have been at war. Now the war has come home...
On a sunny July day in 1815, Plymouth Sound is crowded with boats vying for a view of England's great battleship HMS Bellerophon. For aboard the vessel is the stout little Frenchman who threw the world into chaos. In London, some people clamor for Napoleon's execution, others for his exile, and still others for a civil trial on English soil. For one humble London detective, the debate has turned deadly. Bow Street Runner Henry Morton has a murder to solve--and Napoleon himself is at the heart of the matter.
The victim is a Frenchwoman, the mistress of a count. Soon Morton is racing through a demimonde of French expatriates, Bonapartists, fanatical Royalists, and one very dangerous, drunken petty crook. From an exotic London brothel to a scene of carnage on a Dartmoor farm, the detective enters a covert war over Napoleon's fate. And amid the betrayal, deception, and murder, Morton will face a waterloo of his own.
On a sunny July day in 1815, Plymouth Sound is crowded with boats vying for a view of England's great battleship HMS Bellerophon. For aboard the vessel is the stout little Frenchman who threw the world into chaos. In London, some people clamor for Napoleon's execution, others for his exile, and still others for a civil trial on English soil. For one humble London detective, the debate has turned deadly. Bow Street Runner Henry Morton has a murder to solve--and Napoleon himself is at the heart of the matter.
The victim is a Frenchwoman, the mistress of a count. Soon Morton is racing through a demimonde of French expatriates, Bonapartists, fanatical Royalists, and one very dangerous, drunken petty crook. From an exotic London brothel to a scene of carnage on a Dartmoor farm, the detective enters a covert war over Napoleon's fate. And amid the betrayal, deception, and murder, Morton will face a waterloo of his own.
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- Title The Emperor's Assassin: The Emperor's Assassin: Memoirs of a Bow Street Runner
- Author T. F. Banks
- Binding Mass Market Paperbound
- Edition Edited ed
- Pages 338
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Bantam Dell, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 2003-06-03
- ISBN 9780440240846 / 0440240840
- Weight 0.3 lbs (0.14 kg)
- Dimensions 6.88 x 4.17 x 0.94 in (17.48 x 10.59 x 2.39 cm)
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- Cultural Region: British
- Library of Congress subjects Mystery fiction, Historical fiction
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2003611427
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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