Sign of the Gallows

About the author

Susanna Calkins is the author of the award-winning Lucy Campion mystery series, set in seventeenth century London, and the Speakeasy mysteries, set in Prohibition-era Chicago. She has a PhD in history and works at the Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science . Born and raised in Philadelphia, she currently lives in the Chicago area with her husband and two sons.

Summary

London, 1667. On her way to a new market to peddle her wares, printer's apprentice Lucy Campion is knocked off her feet by two men in a hurry. When she reaches the desolate crossroads, she discovers why: there, dangling from the hanging tree, is the body of a man. Did he take his life? Lucy is determined to uncover the truth, whatever the danger .

Product details

• Authors: Susanna Calkins, Calkins Susanna
• Publisher: Canongate Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2020
• EAN: 9780727889560
• ISBN: 978-0-7278-8956-0
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: A Lucy Campion Mystery
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense > Historical crime novels; London, Greater London, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Historical, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Amateur Sleuth, Historical mysteries, Historical crime and mysteries, Crime and mystery: women sleuths, C 1600 To C 1700, Later 17th century c 1650 to c 1699