Author(s): Cornwell, Bernard

Fiction

1817, Newgate prison where crowds watch the death throes of men and women on the Gallows. Charles Corday is sentenced to hang for the murder of a Countess whom he was in the process of painting. Rider Sandman, a former soldier and cricketer has been appointed by the Home Office to investigate. He has 7 days to snatch an innocent man from the hungriest gallows in Europe.

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