Man'S Storm - Poche

On November 26th, 1703, a great gale tore through England. Some terrified Londoners had narrow escapes in the chaos, others were killed, among them Joan Fletcher, shrewish wife of Alan Fletcher the ironmonger. But the savage blow which split open her head points to more suspicious circumstances. Surreptitiously, George Man, a young parish watchman, trails the ironmonger through the dangerous backstreets, while the storm rages on. And as Fletcher's secret life emerges, it reveals a web of intrigue that stretches from the brothels of Westminster to a brickworks in Tilbury, owned by the mysterious Dissenter Daniel Defoe. Who, Man realises, holds the key to the murder. If he can only be found...