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Murder mystery set in early 18th century London. The story follows Jewish thief-taker Benjamin Weaver as he investigates the fraudulence of the South Sea Company, whose forged stock certificates lead to the world's first stock-market crash, the “South Sea Bubble” of 1720.
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by: David Liss
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An outsider in eighteenth-century London, Jewish pugilist and hired thug Benjamin Weaver prowls the city's mean streets in the service of England's gentry tracking down debtors and thieves, until the ...
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