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Eighteenth-century London judge Sir John Fielding and his assistant, thirteen-year-old Jeremy Proctor, investigate the murders of a publisher and his family
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Accompanied by his "eyes" (and the series' narrator) thirteen-year-old Jeremy Proctor, Fielding comes across a crime of a particularly shocking and sanguinary nature. A bookseller-publisher, his wife and two sons are found murdered in their living quarters above his shop in Grub Street. On the scene, ranting and brandishing an axe, stands John Clayton, identified by the broadsheets as a "mad poet from Buckinghamshire."
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