The Maid of Turpin's

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Young Sybil Turpin is an innkeeper who caters for the unsavoury underworld of 18th Century London. When she gets involved in a fiendish plot involving spies and political intrigue her life is suddenly in danger from the most ruthless of men.This thrilling novel plunges the reader back to the year 1720 when the government of Prime Minister Robert Walpole was overwhelmed by a criminal scandal which threatened to bankrupt the country.The truth behind that intrigue has never fully come to light. This novel is based on those events, weaving a masterful tale of romance, violence and tumult around the few known facts.