Blackstone's Fancy Author:Richard Falkirk In Blackstone, the first in a series of four novels, thousands of readers were introduced to Edmund Blackstone, Bow Street Runner, whose courage and derring-do thwarted an attempt to kidnap the future queen Victoria. In Blackstone's Fancy, we follow him into the lurid, violent world of prizefighting. — Blackstone's mission: to stamp out this "spo... more »rt" in accordance with an Act of Parliament outlawing it. The problem is that Blackstone has a personal interest in prizefighting. His interest becomes even more personal - and dangerous - when attempts are made on his life as a result of his "interference" with the men who set the fights. Kidnap, blackmail, and murder in the dark alley ways and smoky backrooms of London made the success of Blackstone's mission imperative, as he races against time and the growing public outcry.« less