The Counterfeit Crank, Edward Marston
The Counterfeit Crank, Edward Marston
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The Counterfeit Crank

Author: Edward Marston

Narrator: David Thorpe

Unabridged: 9 hr 37 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Soundings

Published: 09/01/2017

Synopsis

Nicholas Bracewell befriends a young beggar who is trying to eke out a living as a counterfeit crank, pretending to have spectacular epileptic fits in order to get money from gullible bystanders. When the beggar is murdered inside Bridewell, Nicholas has to pose as a beggar himself in order to get inside the notorious institution so that he can solve the crime. Counterfeiting of all kinds is exposed.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Maria

What a splendidly convoluted and complex mystery this is! Edward Marston is a master plotter at work, testing his protagonist Nicholas Bracewell and the troupe of actors, Lord Westfield's Men, to the very limit of endurance. It's a story of many different types of counterfeit cranks. Several thrillin......more

Goodreads review by Debbie

Another good book in the Nick Bracewell series - the counterfeit crank was effectively any conman in those days - and you get introduced to a really obvious one early in the book. As the drama unfolds you start to realise there are a few other characters who probably aren't all they seem either - an......more

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