Autumn 1592. Sir Robert Carey and Sergeant Henry Dodd are riding to London. There, Carey runs the gauntlet of his many creditors and his embarassingly pregnant mistress. Then there is the matter of the plague. But how can Carey solve his problems when he is thrown in jail?
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Writing under her real name, Patricia Finney began her career when only 17, with A Shadow of Gulls, an historical novel set in Ireland during Roman times. After ten years' break she returned triumphantly with Firedrake's Eye, a highly praised literary novel set in Elizabethan England.
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