Author | Derek Lambert |
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Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Series | Edmund Blackstone |
Genre | Historical thriller |
Publisher | Methuen Publishing |
Publication date | 1976 |
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Preceded by | Blackstone and the Scourge of Europe |
Followed by | Blackstone on Broadway |
Blackstone Underground is a 1976 historical thriller novel by the British writer Derek Lambert, published under the pen name Richard Falkirk. It is the fifth in a series of six novels featuring Edmund Blackstone, a member of the Bow Street Runners in the pre- Victorian era. [1] While trying to decide how to rescue a boy sentenced to death from Newgate Prison, Blackstone is called upon to thwart a gang plotting to rob the Bank of England.