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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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dbpedia:Bernard_Cornwell

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ISBN 978-0-00-712715-3 (first edition, hardback)

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dbpedia:Historical_mystery

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384

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47192973

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dbpedia:HarperCollins