The Masters of Bow Street Author:John Creasey The date is 1739, the place Tyburn Fields, where a notorious highwayman is to be hanged in the squalid and raucous celebration of a public execution. Amidst the screaming mob of pickpockets, thieves, gentry, prostitutes, vendors, soldier, and haughty aristocrats, three people watch the hanging with a special personal interest: Ruth Marshall, who... more »se husband the highwayman has murdered,; her son James; and John Furnival, A Chief Magistrate of Bow Street and member of the great house of Furnival, whose passion is justice and whose obsession is the punishment of crime.
On this bright spring day, in the savagery of the public execution, the lives of these three people are joined by the accident of fate. Their descendants, from generation to generation, on both sides of the law, will be caught up in the epic struggle between justice and crime, law and order, peace and violence that was the subject of John Creasey's work and the central concern of his life.« less