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Sir John Fielding has trailed a packet of controversial letters from London to the colony of Massachusetts. But when the suspect in the theft is found dead, Sir John turns his eye on the possible involvement of Benjamin Franklin.

Sir John Fielding, a blind eighteenth-century London judge, investigates the strange reappearance of a long-missing nobleman shortly after his brother's execution and his connection with an American's recent suicide.

The legendary, blind eighteenth-century judge Sir John Fielding returns in his third mystery, in which he investigates the murder of a sea captain, possibly at the hands of his own stepson.

Off the water that separates England from France, near the seaside town of Deal, the practice of "owling," a local term for the illegal cargo trade, thrives on the moonlit beaches. Blind judge Sir John Fielding and his young protege Jeremy Proctor have been sent to Deal to question the town magistrate, accused of complicity in the smuggling. But just as their investigation begins, the smugglers turn murderous, dispatching esteemed members...

In The Price of Murder, Sir John and Jeremy are drawn deep into the notorious Seven Dials section of London, where they must contend with the most sordid inclinations of both the working class and the aristocracy. When the body of a young girl is pulled from the Thames, Sir John and Jeremy begin to investigate; but the girl's mother is nowhere to be found, until Jeremy's search for clues leads him to the racetrack. There, he discovers just how dangerous...