Death at St James' Palace

In Deryn Lake's Death at St. James's Palace: A John Rawlings Mystery, the real-life blind magistrate John Fielding (and hero of a historical mystery series by Bruce Alexander) is at St. James's Palace, waiting to be invested as a knight, when a member of the crowd falls down the great stairs to his death. Apothecary John Rawlings must help his friend, Sir John, the only reliable witness, get to the bottom of the matter in this winning Georgian historical.