Andrew Pepper, Author . Phoenix $15.95 (391p) ISBN 978-0-7538-2168-8
Set in 1829 London, Pepper’s hard-hitting first Pyke mystery introduces the vicious and vengeful Pyke, a crooked Bow Street Runner. Reform-minded home secretary Robert Peel plans a new police force to replace the Bow Street Runners, whose cozy
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Andrew Pepper, Author . Phoenix $16.95 (544p) ISBN 978-0-297-85238-4
Set in 1835, the superb sequel to Pepper's The Last Days of Newgate
(Reviews, May 18) finds Pyke, a former Bow Street Runner, turned semirespectable London banker. Tory leader Robert Peel asks Pyke to look into the murder of an unidentified,...
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Andrew Pepper, Author . Phoenix $15.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-7538-2597-6
Set in 1840, Pepper’s outstanding third hard-boiled historical finds the series’ unusual antihero, known simply as Pyke, still recovering from the loss of his wife, who perished five years earlier, in 2008’s The Revenge of Captain...
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Andrew Pepper, Author Orion Publishing Group, $16.95 (534p) ISBN 978-0-7538-2400-9
Set in 1835, the superb sequel to Pepper's The Last Days of Newgate (Reviews, May 18) finds Pyke, a former Bow Street Runner, turned semirespectable London banker. Tory leader Robert Peel asks Pyke to look into the murder of an unidentified,...
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Andrew Pepper. Phoenix (IPG, dist.), $14.95 trade paper (336p) ISBN 978-1-7802-2011-6
Thomas Hardy meets Chinatown in Pepper’s unsparingly bleak fifth noir historical featuring Scotland Yard’s Detective Inspector Pyke (after 2011’s The Detective Branch). In November 1846, Pyke travels from London to the Welsh mining town of Merthyr...
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