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Captain Hazard’s Game

- A Mystery of Queen Anne’s London
Af: David Fairer Engelsk Paperback

Captain Hazard’s Game

- A Mystery of Queen Anne’s London
Af: David Fairer Engelsk Paperback
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Captain Hazard’s Game, third in the Chocolate House Mysteries series, conjures up the vibrant life of early eighteenth-century gamesters and money-men, a world of deception where risk could bring huge rewards – especially when you turned the stock-market by false news or shortened the odds by cheating. It was a scene where all was in hazard and life lived on the edge.

The book weaves its classic murder mystery around actual events of October 1708, and we move among a rich cast of characters, both in Vandernan’s gaming-house, Covent Garden, and the notorious Exchange Alley.

Playing Captain Hazard’s Game brings murder and scandal uncomfortably close, and Widow Trotter and her friends at the Bay-Tree are drawn into a frenzied game of chance and speculation at a time when the market was unregulated. Fortunes were made overnight, and ruin could descend in a single hour. People played for the highest stakes, and men of power manipulated things for their own ends. In this book the chocolate house itself comes under threat as Mary Trotter, with help from her young friends Tom and Will, struggles to find the truth behind an ingenious system of deception. Once again, she presides over the novel, as she does over the Bay-Tree, with good humour, fierce integrity, and resolute determination.

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Captain Hazard’s Game, third in the Chocolate House Mysteries series, conjures up the vibrant life of early eighteenth-century gamesters and money-men, a world of deception where risk could bring huge rewards – especially when you turned the stock-market by false news or shortened the odds by cheating. It was a scene where all was in hazard and life lived on the edge.

The book weaves its classic murder mystery around actual events of October 1708, and we move among a rich cast of characters, both in Vandernan’s gaming-house, Covent Garden, and the notorious Exchange Alley.

Playing Captain Hazard’s Game brings murder and scandal uncomfortably close, and Widow Trotter and her friends at the Bay-Tree are drawn into a frenzied game of chance and speculation at a time when the market was unregulated. Fortunes were made overnight, and ruin could descend in a single hour. People played for the highest stakes, and men of power manipulated things for their own ends. In this book the chocolate house itself comes under threat as Mary Trotter, with help from her young friends Tom and Will, struggles to find the truth behind an ingenious system of deception. Once again, she presides over the novel, as she does over the Bay-Tree, with good humour, fierce integrity, and resolute determination.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 664
ISBN-13: 9781803132907
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 1803132906
Kategori: Historiske krimier
Udg. Dato: 28 sep 2022
Længde: 45mm
Bredde: 197mm
Højde: 130mm
Forlag: Troubador Publishing
Oplagsdato: 28 sep 2022
Forfatter(e): David Fairer
Forfatter(e) David Fairer

Kategori Historiske krimier

ISBN-13 9781803132907

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 664

Udgave

Længde 45mm

Bredde 197mm

Højde 130mm

Udg. Dato 28 sep 2022

Oplagsdato 28 sep 2022

Forlag Troubador Publishing

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