The Frost Fair: A Restoration Mystery
London: Allison & Busby LTD, 2003. First edition. Hardcover. True (UK) first edition, first printing. Fine, fresh, unread copy in equally fine dust jacket. Hardcover. 284 pp. The fourt book in the series of historical mysteries set during the Restoration period in London after the Great Fire of 1666 and featuring Christopher Redmayne and Puritan constable Jonathan Bale. In this entry , it's Christman, 1669 and London is in the grip of its coldest winter for years. This doesn't stop revellers coming from near and far for the frost fair. Redmayne, Bale and family members go skating but when the youngest member of the group slides into thin ice and is in danger of crashing through to the icy waters, Christopher and Jonathan make a disturbing discovers---the frozen corpse of a man embedded in the ice. Fine / fine. Item #E32153
ISBN: 9780749006006
Price: $21.50