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From Publishers Weekly
The lusty life of London's Covent Garden?and its diverse practitioners?highlights the second appearance of blind Sir John Fielding, an 18th-century magistrate first met in Blind Justice. Jeremy Proctor, Sir John's 13-year-old ward, has been hired by Grub Street publisher/bookseller Ezekiel Crabb. But the night before the apprenticeship is to begin, Crabb, his family and two employees die in a hideous massacre. Houseguest and rustic poet John Clayton, found dazed with ax in hand, is taken into custody. But Fielding is not satisfied with the evidence. In pursuit of the truth, he enlists the help of the Bow Street Runners, Samuel Johnson (but not Boswell), a pickpocket, a gambler, another publisher and, of course, Jeremy. More murders and a torched synagogue lead to a band of religious zealots who have come from Monongahela in the American colonies to convert London's Jews. Still needing facts, Fielding sets a trap that snares the villains in a stunning double climax. Especially noteworthy are scenes of Sir John in action at the Bow Street Court, dispensing practical justice to Londoners high and low.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From School Library Journal
YA?In this sequel to Blind Justice (Putnam, 1994), 13-year-old Jeremy Proctor again teams up with Sir John Fielding, the blind magistrate and co-founder of London's first police force, this time to investigate who massacred the printer, Ezekiel Grabb, and his family and two employees the day before Jeremy was to be apprenticed to him. Acting once more as Sir John's eyes, the boy becomes ever more deeply involved in the magistrate's life and eventually earns himself a permanent place in his household. Though fiction, this book relies heavily on historic figures as its key characters. Its strength is its depiction of 18th-century London, seen through the eyes of young Jeremy, as he ranges from Grub Street to the Bedlam madhouse, from Covent Garden to London's worst slums..?Pamela Rearden, Centreville Regional Library, Fairfax County, VA
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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In my research for materials pertinent to the murders in Grub Street, which was indeed one of Sir John Fielding's most infamous inquiries, I came upon the preceding document which I had kept near thirty years as a reminder of just how this grisly matter began. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Sir John, Bow Street, Brother Abraham, John Clayton, Grub Street, Moll Caulfield, Constable Cowley, Jimmie Bunkins, Covent Garden, Lord Mansfield, Brethren of the Spirit, Ezekiel Crabb, Lord Chief Justice, Maiden Lane, Isham Henry, Tom Cranford, Half Moon Passage, Samuel Johnson, Benjamin Bailey, Black Jack Bilbo, Rabbi Gershon, Katherine Durham, Berry Lane, Lord Mayor, Ormond Neville New!
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