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    Date with the Executioner

    By Edward Marston

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    1817. Dawn breaks on a summer's day in Chalk Farm, London, and the scene is set for a duel between a lady's two ardent admirers. Paul Skillen has been teaching Mark Bowerman how to shoot properly and, although he is not sanguine of his chances, stands as his second. Although the duel is broken up, the passions behind the duel seem to spill out into the full light of day when Bowerman is stabbed to death in a stranger's garden. Paul and his twin Peter are determined to see justice done and are soon enmeshed in threads of inheritance, treachery and fraud.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAllison & Busby
    Release dateFeb 16, 2017
    ISBN9780749021153
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    Edward Marston

    Edward Marston has written well over a hundred books, including some non-fiction. He is best known for his hugely successful Railway Detective series and he also writes the Bow Street Rivals series featuring twin detectives set during the Regency; the Home Front Detective novels set during the First World War; and the Ocean Liner mysteries.

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      Peter & Paul Skillen are rivals of the Bow Street Runners (who work for the Chief Magistrate). Both attempt to solve the same crimes & bring the same criminals to justice. The difference is the former are intelligent, insightful, & careful; whereas the latter are unintelligent, bullying & bumbling.In this book Paul has agreed to be the second in a duel for Mr. Bowerman, whose intended has received unwanted attention from another man... when the Runners acting on a tip show up and cart everyone off to the Magistrate.When Mr. Bowerman is found stabbed on the other man's rental property by the other man's dagger, the intrigue begins....Not only are the Runners working against the Skillens, so is "the other man" & his dubious friend.The Skillen brothers easily turn the tables.... but there is the matter of Mr. Bowerman's inheritance, a mysterious woman bilking local banks, & the possibility of a double-cross.I marked this down a star because of the side story & histrionics of Paul's actress companion... she is tedious & boring... I skipped over most of her dialogs.I also figured out who done it & the double-cross, but the main portion of the book was still interesting and definitely held my interest