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Andrew Taylor 2-Book Collection: The American Boy, The Scent of Death
Andrew Taylor
Two historical thrillers from the award-winning and bestselling Andrew Taylor. ‘Taylor wrote superb historical fiction long before Hilary Mantel was popular’ Daily TelegraphTHE AMERICAN BOY: England 1819: Thomas Shield, a new master at a school just outside London, is tutor to a young American boy and the child’s sensitive best friend, Charles Frant. Helplessly drawn to Frant’s beautiful, unhappy mother, Thomas becomes entwined in their family’s affairs.When a brutal murder takes place in London’s seedy backstreets, it is not certain who either the victim or the killer is. But all clues seem to lead back to the Frant household, and Shield is tangled in a web of lies, money, sex and death that threatens to tear his new life apart.And what of the strange American boy at the heart of these macabre events – what is the dark secret of young Edgar Allan Poe?THE SCENT OF DEATH: August, 1778. British-controlled Manhattan is a melting pot of soldiers, traitors and refugees, surrounded by rebel forces as the American War of Independence rages on.Into this simmering tension sails Edward Savill, a London clerk tasked with assessing the claims of loyalists who have lost out during the war.Savill lodges with the ageing Judge Wintour, his ailing wife, and their enigmatic daughter-in-law Arabella. However, as Savill soon learns, what the Wintours have lost in wealth, they have gained in secrets.The murder of a gentleman in the slums pulls Savill into the city’s underbelly. But when life is so cheap, why does one death matter? Because making a nation is a lucrative business, and some people cannot afford to miss out, whatever the price…
THE AMERICAN BOY & THE SCENT OF DEATH
Andrew Taylor
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Cover (#u97cbad24-b679-5959-93cf-2f71140b7470)
Title Page (#ua09d35b8-5742-50a5-94af-16b8a4286308)
Copyright
The American Boy (#ub2ebb570-db03-5a01-9160-6cb64d1e6b55)
The Scent of Death (#u72de9dca-ad9b-53f6-9e2d-7ff6da7d02f1)
Sneak peek at The Silent Boy
About the Author
By Andrew Taylor
About the Publisher
THE AMERICAN BOY
Andrew Taylor
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Harper
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Hammersmith
London W6 8JB
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First published in Great Britain by Flamingo 2003
Copyright © Andrew Taylor 2003
Cover layout design © HarperCollinsPublishers 2013
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Andrew Taylor asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work
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For Sarah and William. And, as always, for Caroline.
I would not, if I could, here or to-day, embody
a record of my later years of unspeakable
misery, and unpardonable crime.
From “William Wilson” by Edgar Allan Poe
Contents
Cover (#ub2ebb570-db03-5a01-9160-6cb64d1e6b55)
Title Page (#uf0d19bf2-1fa2-5538-b552-a7c123cdaf7a)
Copyright (#u0e4984a6-24a8-5814-8886-09d5e6a67659)
Dedication (#u8c739507-6d5b-53ed-8cd8-335c17ca9fa4)
Epigraph (#u7303e0b8-2071-5531-b9b5-9d3a55928c30)
The Wavenhoe Family, 1819 (#u101de701-89a7-5ee2-ab02-ea6d5df11767)
The Narrative of Thomas Shield, 1819–20 (#u77afbef8-4c68-54d3-b3a0-3763abe4edfe)
Chapter 1 (#uee95f8ad-61b8-561d-9640-0ee8a6e727c8)
Chapter 2 (#u1844862d-6eb5-5f3c-a245-3d068768078d)
Chapter 3 (#u34924632-c786-57a9-b274-a2b8e7d7c5c8)
Chapter 4 (#u5b04db62-c99f-5017-a327-869dbfc5af4f)
Chapter 5 (#ud46b1a09-1637-5c94-86fd-0d276d5ac33f)
Chapter 6 (#ud3fdbce7-0140-59f2-ab57-71918353a03c)
Chapter 7 (#uea8b4144-e37e-5abc-a3c3-c500587bc6a2)
Chapter 8 (#u14e41850-614b-5ac9-8fc4-4f69e4b052f5)
Chapter 9 (#u7fa26fa5-e158-5143-a192-1075ff862147)
Chapter 10 (#ub00c3ea5-159c-5f66-a72f-cf0e2546f962)
Chapter 11 (#ub2c1ed30-e439-5f44-b7ba-b4219fa033f2)
Chapter 12 (#u445599a7-7c9f-5af7-b34b-65119daba9d8)
Chapter 13 (#u13a16352-77cd-5ab7-bc17-e1dcec763591)
Chapter 14 (#u474993cb-077f-590a-a609-1103c16a52e4)
Chapter 15 (#ue515a9a8-21af-5cde-982c-b6f81dd513f8)
Chapter 16 (#u6f105209-e9aa-5a14-930a-93e31ef409c6)
Chapter 17 (#ubbeb8e10-6fcd-5501-9067-421258464dfa)
Chapter 18 (#u56910fbf-cafd-5039-95f4-1e855c0fc66d)
Chapter 19 (#u870b60e6-2f93-5ad7-8d75-8e362621f1b0)
Chapter 20 (#ube5d2ca5-9b5d-56b0-83d5-579d0fcaada2)
Chapter 21 (#uecb3e086-d34e-5e17-b9ac-24b951396f54)
Chapter 22 (#u062bd9f1-c0f3-5f83-bc1e-6fbb5f087096)
Chapter 23 (#u20ab3f20-55cd-585b-96b0-186169423cc0)
Chapter 24 (#u82ec77ba-35fc-5ae4-8422-f39396964e73)
Chapter 25 (#u9b274676-5f6b-58a8-a50c-0854f8555b7e)
Chapter 26 (#ufd62b794-6f4a-56ca-a636-e0b44744d80b)
Chapter 27 (#u2cd74200-afd2-590b-b85b-e89a976d54bc)
Chapter 28 (#ue607673f-7087-56d8-83a3-9cff42255d34)
Chapter 29 (#u63a3b73b-258b-5120-897d-d3141f09c2f3)
Chapter 30 (#u4504d94d-7fc4-5022-8a46-cc53ef1d3c7b)
Chapter 31 (#uec12cfcd-00a1-5a22-938b-107d1efdeb58)
Chapter 32 (#uae43d265-4189-5eee-9e6f-8c450cd9d03d)
Chapter 33 (#u6740072a-307c-5043-b3f9-419395e9fbb7)
Chapter 34 (#u4f2429ad-afad-54fe-bedc-c04a35af0dd8)
Chapter 35 (#u004ff518-9c03-5904-9007-23ede510bcba)
Chapter 36 (#u9ef1f504-d432-5a64-9e37-41c103423856)
Chapter 37 (#u98fa69be-cea0-57c3-8517-3a0cdcbdd545)
Chapter 38 (#u1a2244ec-8a3f-59cf-b8ad-f7b18beb49ea)
Chapter 39 (#u9f33ecbd-9f4b-5bc4-853c-ffbd63e0b005)
