The Piccadilly Plot: Chaloner's Seventh Exploit in Restoration London - Susanna Gregory Reviews
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... he has just married one of Queen Katherine maids in waiting and is working for the Earl of Clarendon who is effectively the Prime minister.
The Piccadilly plot begins with a massacre of English troops at Tangiers, in which a troop of men are given false information and their whereabouts leaked to hostile natives. The precise reason is to have the company commander killed and therefore kill one of the men who have information about a plot to bring down the English government. Chaloner is returning back from Holland...more
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The Piccadilly plot is the seventh in the Thomas Chaloner novels set in restoration England in and around 1660-1670's. The novels are written by Susanna Gregory who is best known for her Matthew Bartholomhew books set in a Cambridge college in the 14th century. The Chaloner novels differ from the MB books in that there is only one main character and the action tends to be a bit more James Bond compared with Inspector Morse, still the books tend to engage the reader and transport them back to a time of decadence, deceit and dubious morals all set around the court of Charles II. Thomas Chaloner is a nephew of one of the men who signed the death warrant of ... Read the complete review
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