Crime

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780778311935Author Heather GudenkaufFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Mira BooksPublisher Mira Books

London, 1728. A young, well-dressed man is driven through streets of jeering onlookers to the gallows at Tyburn. They call him a murderer. But Tom Hawkins is innocent and somehow he has to prove it, before the rope squeezes the life out of him. It is,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143107637Author Fyodor DostoyevskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 608Imprint Penguin ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 646gDimensions(mm)...

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