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SUMMARY: Penzler Pick, November 2001: The first in a new series called "Memoirs of a Bow Street Runner," this well-executed historical draws readers back into the London of the early 19th century, when hackney coaches fought for space with brewery carts, horse-drawn chaises, peddlers' wagons, and milling throngs on the city's rough-and-tumble streets. Banks has created a living, breathing landscape peopled with such characters as Bow Street constable Henry Morton and his intimate acquaintance, actress Arabella Malibrant, along with Chief Bow Street Magistrate Sir Nathaniel Conant, all of whom one will be delighted to encounter again. When we first meet the large, lean Morton, with his "dark and inquisitive" eyes, the independent-minded officer of the law has been summoned from the boxing ring, where he regularly takes evening exercise, to the Portman Square townhouse of Mrs. Malibrant. There a rich young gentleman in an unfortunate condition (he is dead!) has arrived in a hackney, the driver of which has disappeared into the gloom of night. Apparently the corpse had been alive enough that very morning to participate in a duel, but he has not succumbed to any wounds sustained in tha

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Author
Banks, T F
Publisher
Dell Publishing
Published
2001
Language
EN
ISBN
9780307491831
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Fiction, Literary Fiction, Thriller
Rating
3.52 / 5 (636 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-13

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