Books by Bruce Alexander and Complete Book Reviews
Bruce Alexander, Author . Putnam $24.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-399-14774-6
Sir John Fielding, the blind magistrate of Bow Street Court, returns for another rousing period crime adventure, as told by 17-year-old orphan Jeremy Proctor, from the pseudonymous Alexander (Blind Justice; Watery Grave; etc.). In 1772, Jeremy is...
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Bruce Alexander, Author . Putnam $24.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-399-14923-8
Sir John Fielding and his young protégé, Jeremy Proctor, those delightful Georgian versions of Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin, get mixed up in pre–Revolutionary War intrigue in their ninth outing (after 2001's Smuggler's Moon)
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Bruce Alexander, Author . Putnam $24.95 (257p) ISBN 978-0-399-15078-4
In Alexander's 10th enjoyable Sir John Fielding novel set in Georgian England (after 2002's An Experiment in Treason), the brilliant blind magistrate and his young apprentice Jeremy Proctor investigate the brutal murder of a little girl...
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Bruce Alexander, Author . Putnam $24.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-399-15242-9
Alexander's many fans will find the final, posthumous Sir John Fielding mystery (after 2003's The Price of Murder
) a bittersweet experience. It marks a triumphant return to the series' strengths, with the blind magistrate Fielding, the...
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Bruce Alexander, Author Putnam Publishing Group $22.95 (279p) ISBN 978-0-399-14309-0
Alexander once again evokes the seamier side of 18th-century London to winning effect. A serial killer is slaughtering prostitutes in London's Covent Garden, circa 1770, challenging Bow Street's blind magistrate Sir John Fielding and his teenage...
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Bruce Alexander, Author Putnam Adult $24.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-399-14648-0
Effectively combining the formality of 18th-century London with lively storytelling, the pseudonymous Alexander weds a tale of brutal robberies to the famous Somerset case, which revealed the many inconsistencies of British law as applied to slaves...
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Bruce Alexander, Author Putnam Publishing Group $21.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-399-14085-3
The lusty life of London's Covent Garden--and its diverse practitioners--highlights the second appearance of blind Sir John Fielding, an 18th-century magistrate first met in Blind Justice. Jeremy Proctor, Sir John's 13-year-old ward, has been hired...
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Bruce Alexander, Author Putnam Publishing Group $19.95 (254p) ISBN 978-0-399-13978-9
This launch of a projected series set in 18th-century England introduces Sir John Fielding--blind, brilliant, compassionate magistrate of London's Bow Street Court--and Jeremy Proctor, the narrator, a penniless, intelligent 13-year-old orphan whom...
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Bruce Alexander, Author Putnam Publishing Group $22.95 (265p) ISBN 978-0-399-14155-3
Two days out of Cape Town in 1767, the captain of a British frigate falls overboard and drowns during a violent storm. Surprisingly, seven months later, charges of murder are brought against highly regarded Lieutenant William Landon, alleging that...
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Bruce Alexander, Author Putnam Publishing Group $22.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-399-14419-6
Sir John Fielding returns in Alexander's entertaining fifth fictionalized case (after Person or Persons Unknown, 1997) for the real-life 18th-century English magistrate known as ""Blind Beak."" A master of character and plot, Alexander also captures
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Bruce Alexander, Author Putnam Publishing Group $23.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-399-14564-3
Blind 18th-century magistrate Sir John Fielding, hero of Alexander's popular series of historical detective fiction (Jack, Knave and Fool, etc.), here lends his investigative skills to the mystery surrounding the claimant to the vast estate of the...
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