Blackstone Author:Richard Falkirk First of the Blackstone series. He cast a giant shadow...from the swarming slums of nineteenth-century London to its aristocratic salons. He was Blackstone, pride of the Bow Street Runners, an elite corps of special agents sworn to protect the crown. — In his first adventure, Blackstone is called upon to foil the "Cumberland Plot," a daring kidna... more »p scheme to snatch Victoria, the queen-to-be herself!« less