Book description
A Charles Patterson myster- Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, 1736. A foggy
September evening. When a child is ridden down and killed by an unknown
horseman, musician sleuth Charles Patterson, the only witness close
enough to see that the collision was no accident, vows to hunt down the
rider. But there are distractions, including Richard Nightingale, a
fashionable 'ladder-dancer', who arrives from London to cause havoc with
the ladies. Then Nightingale himself is attacked, and Patterson realizes
the situation is more complicated than he first thought . . .