Gallows Thief

Description

In the cobbled streets outside Newgate Prison, the common and desperate of London gather regularly to enjoy the spectacle of human necks broken at the end of a hangman's rope. For Rider Sandman, newly returned from the Napoleonic Wars, it is not grim entertainment that draws him here, but a mission to prove the guilt or innocence of a condemned prisoner -- a duty that leads Sandman from the hellish bowels of Newgate to the scented drawing rooms of the ruthless and powerful, and into the darkest shadows of the filthy, bustling city, in search of the truth.

First Sentence

SIR HENRY FORREST, banker and alderman of the City of London, almost gagged when he entered the Press Yard, for the smell was terrible, worse than the reek of the sewer outflows where the Fleet Ditch oozed into the Thames.

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Other Editions

• Gallows ThiefeBookHarperCollins2006-01-01
• Gallows thiefBCA2001-01-01
• Gallows thiefHarperCollins2001-01-01
• Gallow's ThiefHardcoverChivers Large print (Chivers, Windsor, Paragon & C2001-11-01
• Gallows ThiefChivers Press2002-01-01
• Gallows thiefHarperCollins Publishers2002-01-01