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Name: A Spectacle of Corruption

Full title: A Spectacle of Corruption: A Novel
Author: David Liss
Year: 2004
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Popularity: 2.3
Genres/categories: Historical fiction, Fiction, Mystery

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Benjamin Weaver is awaiting death in Newgate gaol. Mysteriously convicted for a murder he didn't commit by a judge determined to see him hang, he is suddenly--and equally mysteriously--offered the means to escape.

What, you may well ask, is going on? It's a question Weaver asks of himself as he slinks out into the London night on a mission to clear his name. In doing so, he steps straight into a labyrinthine plot that weaves, like Benjamin, across eighteenth century London.

For the conspiracy against him is part of a grimmer and gaudier picture: one that encompasses double-dealings and dockworkers, the extorting of a priest--and a looming election with the potential to spark a revolution and topple the monarchy.

Handily, Weaver is a private investigator. He's also an ex-pugilist, which is also a good thing when it comes to punching his weight in the 'polite' society of plotters and politicians, power-brokers, crime lords, assassins and spies. At the apex of which sits, rather precariously, a recent import from Hanover: the king.

This book is part of the "Benjamin Weaver" series.
Here are some other books from this series:
A Conspiracy of Paper
First published 2000
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The Day of Atonement
First published 2014
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The Devil's Company
First published 2007
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