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Gallows Thief (2001) is a historical mystery novel by Bernard Cornwell set in London in the year 1817, which uses capital punishment as its backdrop.Rider Sandman, a veteran of the Napoleonic Wars, is hired as an investigator as a formality to rubber-stamp the death sentence of a condemned murderer. Instead, he discovers a conspiracy to conceal the real killer. In the slang of the time, a “gallows thief,” (also a “crap prig”) is a person who prevents the hanging of an innocent person.

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  • Gallows Thief (2001) is a historical mystery novel by Bernard Cornwell set in London in the year 1817, which uses capital punishment as its backdrop.Rider Sandman, a veteran of the Napoleonic Wars, is hired as an investigator as a formality to rubber-stamp the death sentence of a condemned murderer. Instead, he discovers a conspiracy to conceal the real killer. In the slang of the time, a “gallows thief,” (also a “crap prig”) is a person who prevents the hanging of an innocent person.
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  • Gallows Thief
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  • ISBN 978-0-00-712715-3 (first edition, hardback)
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  • 47192973
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