The Devil¿s Cathedral av David Fairer

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<p><strong>THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY LANE, 24 April 1708.</strong> A performance of <em>Macbeth</em> is under way when disaster strikes and the stage becomes a scene of elemental chaos ¿ and for Widow Trotter and her friends at the Bay-Tree Chocolate House, a new adventure begins, involving murder, poison, fire, and a rogue elephant . . .</p><p>Devoted fans of <em>Chocolate House Treason</em> will welcome this second novel in the <em>Chocolate House Mysteries</em> series, which captures all the energies of the early eighteenth-century theatre. We move among the eccentric characters of the Theatre Royal company, in Drury Lane and at the exuberant May Fair where the actors moonlight in the fairground booths.</p><p>The puritanical reformers are determined to close the theatre and abolish the Fair, and ¿accidents¿ begin to happen ¿ but Mary Trotter and her friends at the Bay-Tree are determined to expose the conspiracy, and the action reaches its climax at the Fair when the players are faced wi