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The Poison Machine

by Robert J. Lloyd
Dan Calley
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London, 1679-A year has passed since the attempt to murder King Charles II, but London is still a viper's nest of rumored Catholic conspiracies, and of plots against them in turn. When Harry Hunt-estranged from his mentor Robert Hooke-is summoned to the remote and windswept marshes of Norfolk, he is at first relieved to get away from the place. But in Norfolk, he finds that some Royal workers shoring up a riverbank have made a grim discovery-the skeleton of a dwarf. Harry is able to confirm that the skeleton is that of Captain Jeffrey Hudson, a prominent member of the court once famously given to the Queen in a pie. Except no one knew Hudson was dead, because another man had been impersonating him. The hunt for the impersonator, clearly working as a spy, will take Harry to Paris, another city bedeviled by conspiracies and intrigues, and back, with encounters along the way with a flying man and a cross-dressing swordswoman-and to the uncovering of a plot to kill the Queen and all the Catholic members of her court. But where? When? The Poison Machine is a brilliantly imagined historical thriller that will delight readers of its critically acclaimed predecessor, The Bloodless Boy.
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Publisher: HighBridge Edition: Unabridged

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  • ISBN: 9781696609739
  • File size: 335380 KB
  • Release date: October 25, 2022
  • Duration: 11:38:42

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  • ISBN: 9781696609739
  • File size: 335418 KB
  • Release date: October 25, 2022
  • Duration: 11:42:38
  • Number of parts: 10
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London, 1679-A year has passed since the attempt to murder King Charles II, but London is still a viper's nest of rumored Catholic conspiracies, and of plots against them in turn. When Harry Hunt-estranged from his mentor Robert Hooke-is summoned to the remote and windswept marshes of Norfolk, he is at first relieved to get away from the place. But in Norfolk, he finds that some Royal workers shoring up a riverbank have made a grim discovery-the skeleton of a dwarf. Harry is able to confirm that the skeleton is that of Captain Jeffrey Hudson, a prominent member of the court once famously given to the Queen in a pie. Except no one knew Hudson was dead, because another man had been impersonating him. The hunt for the impersonator, clearly working as a spy, will take Harry to Paris, another city bedeviled by conspiracies and intrigues, and back, with encounters along the way with a flying man and a cross-dressing swordswoman-and to the uncovering of a plot to kill the Queen and all the Catholic members of her court. But where? When? The Poison Machine is a brilliantly imagined historical thriller that will delight readers of its critically acclaimed predecessor, The Bloodless Boy.
Expand title description text
Fiction Mystery Thriller Historical Fiction
  • Details

    Publisher:
    HighBridge
    Edition:
    Unabridged

    OverDrive Listen audiobook
    ISBN: 9781696609739
    File size: 335380 KB
    Release date: October 25, 2022
    Duration: 11:38:42

    MP3 audiobook
    ISBN: 9781696609739
    File size: 335418 KB
    Release date: October 25, 2022
    Duration: 11:42:38
    Number of parts: 10

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