The Plague Doctor Murders

<p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>The plague may have passed but death wears a new grim guise.</strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Deptford Docks 1666. While London smoulders after the Great Fire a black-cloaked figure masked as a plague doctor prowls the wharves by night.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Death follows - heralded by a black cross and the chilling words: Lord have mercy upon him.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>When a naval colleague of Samuel Pepys finds the mark daubed on his own door the diarist summons his inquisitors Abigail Harcourt and Jacob Standish to unmask the killer.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>But Deptford is a place of hard men and old grudges and the truth sinks fast in a barrel of rum.</span></p><p><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>As the madman in the beaked mask closes in Abby and Jacob's second case becomes a race against time.</em></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>The Plague Doctor Murders continues the Samuel Pepys Mysteries: historical mysteries steeped in period colour and brimming with fiendish whodunits. Step back into Pepys's London - once you do you won't want to leave.</span></p>