Blackstone Underground

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Blackstone Underground
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Author Derek Lambert
Country United Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Series Edmund Blackstone
GenreHistorical thriller
Publisher Methuen Publishing
Publication date
1976
Media typePrint
Preceded by Blackstone and the Scourge of Europe  
Followed by Blackstone on Broadway  

Blackstone Underground is a 1976 historical thriller novel by the British writer Derek Lambert, published under the pen name Richard Falkirk. It is the fifth in a series of six novels featuring Edmund Blackstone, a member of the Bow Street Runners in the pre-Victorian era. [1] While trying to decide how to rescue a boy sentenced to death from Newgate Prison, Blackstone is called upon to thwart a gang plotting to rob the Bank of England.

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References

  1. Pronzini & Muller p.240

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