The Tyburn Guinea

A Fragment

De: Richard Blake

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

London, 1696

The city chokes with plots, and executions. Sarah Goodricke—playwright, addict, reluctant heroine—blunders into the Tyburn hanging procession. For a guinea, she agrees to ease a condemned man’s death. But there is more than coin at stake: a sealed package must be smuggled onto the body.

When the plan collapses, Sarah finds herself hunted through London’s alleys, coffee houses, and theatres—pursued by Jacobites, courtiers, spies, and a one-legged Irish killer. All want the package, all are willing to kill.

The Tyburn Guinea is an unrevised and unfinished fragment from Richard Blake, author of Conspiracies of Rome and The Devil’s Treasure. Though it leaves the reader in suspense, it offers a vivid, violent glimpse of a world where laudanum, intrigue, and betrayal mingle with the roar of the playhouse and the gallows at Tyburn.

Praise for Other Novels by Richard Blake:

"Fascinating to read, very well written, an intriguing plot and I enjoyed it very much." (Derek Jacobi, star of I Claudius and Gladiator)

"Vivid characters, devious plotting and buckets of gore are enhanced by his unfamiliar choice of period…. Nasty, fun and educational." (The Daily Telegraph)

"He knows how to deliver a fast-paced story and his grasp of the period is impressively detailed." (The Mail on Sunday)

"A rollicking and raunchy read . . . Anyone who enjoys their history with large dollops of action, sex, intrigue and, above all, fun will absolutely love this novel." (Historical Novels)

"It would be hard to over-praise this extraordinary series, a near-perfect blend of historical detail and atmosphere with the plot of a conspiracy thriller, vivid characters, high philosophy and vulgar comedy." (The Morning Star)

Richard Blake is an historian, broadcaster and university lecturer. His novels have been translated into Spanish, Italian, Greek, Slovak, Hungarian, Chinese and Indonesian. He lives in Kent with his wife and daughter.