Дина Лампитт «Death At the Beggar's Opera»

This evocative Georgian mystery features the return of John Rawlings, the apothecary with a talent for detective work, and John Fielding, the phenomenal blind magistrate whose Runners formed London's early police force.

John Rawlings is among the beau monde enjoying a performance of The Beggar's Opera in Drury Lane when the leading actor — the notorious philanderer Jasper Harcross — dramatically falls to his death on stage.

As Rawlings and the Blind Beak hunt for vital clues, they discover a hotbed of rivalry both on and off the stage which produces numerous suspects and questions. As the search takes on a new intensity, John Rawlings soon finds himself on an intriguing trail of obsession that leads to the dark heart of a cold-blooded murder.