The Plague Doctor Murders: The Samuel Pepys Mysteries Book 2

By Ellis Blackwood

The plague may have passed, but death wears a new, grim guise.

Deptford Docks, 1666. While London smoulders after the Great Fire, a black-cloaked figure, masked as a plague doctor, prowls the wharves by night.

Death follows - heralded by a black cross and the chilling words: Lord have mercy upon him.

When a naval colleague of Samuel Pepys finds the mark daubed on his own door, the diarist summons his inquisitors, Abigail Harcourt and Jacob Standish, to unmask the killer.

But Deptford is a place of hard men and old grudges, and the truth sinks fast in a barrel of rum.

As the madman in the beaked mask closes in, Abby and Jacob's second case becomes a race against time.

The Plague Doctor Murders continues the Samuel Pepys Mysteries: historical mysteries steeped in period colour and brimming with fiendish whodunits. Step back into Pepys's London - once you do, you won't want to leave.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1068702710
• ISBN13: 9781068702716
• Release Date: September 2024
• Publisher: Vintage Mystery Press
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 0.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 8.0"