Gallows Thief, Bernard Cornwell
Gallows Thief, Bernard Cornwell
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Gallows Thief
A Novel

Author: Bernard Cornwell

Narrator: Jonathan Keeble

Unabridged: 11 hr 4 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 11/18/2014

Synopsis

The year is 1820 and England has fought its last victorious battle against the French. Rider Sandman, a hero of Waterloo, has finally returned to London to wed his young bride. But instead of being able to settle down to his fame and glory, he finds himself penniless in a country where unemployment and social unrest are raging high, and where men—innocent or guilty—are hung for the merest of crimes. Thus, when the Home Secretary offers him a job as private investigator—to re-open the case of a death-row candidate accused of murder—Sandman readily accepts, as much for the money as for a chance to see justice being done in a country gone to ruins. Soon, however, he is up to his elbows in grisly a murder plot that keeps thickening as Sandman makes his way through gentleman's clubs and shady taverns, aristocratic mansions and fashionable painters studios, unerringly determined to rescue the innocent young man from the the rope. But someone doesn't want the truth revealed ...

About Bernard Cornwell

Bernard Cornwell is the author of over fifty novels, including the acclaimed New York Times bestselling Saxon Tales, which serve as the basis for the hit Netflix series The Last Kingdom. He lives with his wife on Cape Cod and in Charleston, South Carolina.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Gary on December 10, 2020

One of Cornwell's finest. It is London in 1820, an England of much poverty, social injustice and social ills, and the gallows are busier than they have ever been in England with men and women hung for a variety of crimes without distinction between foul murder and petty theft. A tragic scene at the b......more

Goodreads review by Valeriu on November 13, 2024

Hoțul de spînzurătoare este, bineînțeles, un thriller istoric. Acțiunea se petrece în 1817. Există o traducere românească, care s-a publicat în 2007 la Reader's Digest. Eu am cules cartea din magazia cu vechituri a internetului. Romanul e accesibil, deci, celor dispuși să citească o carte într-un PD......more

Goodreads review by Emma on October 13, 2017

I really enjoyed this! From about halfway through, I was checking to see if this could be the first in a series, as there was plenty of opportunity and story material for one, but alas, no. Set in the Regency period, this story places the spotlight on hanging as corporal punishment. Between 1816 and......more

Goodreads review by Paul on November 10, 2022

A thrilling race against London's hangman! Captain Rider Sandman, a veteran of the Napoleonic Wars and the Battle of Waterloo, has returned to England to find a civilian life in shambles. As a matter of personal honour, Sandman has sold his commission to raise cash to help repay a portion of the debt......more

Goodreads review by Gary on July 09, 2017

One of Cornwell's finest. It is London in 1820, an England of much poverty, social injustice and social ills, and the gallows are busier than they have ever been in England with men and women hung for a variety of crimes without distinction between foul murder and petty theft. A tragic scene at the b......more

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