The Sign of the Gallows av Susanna Calkins

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<p><b><i>A dead man at a crossroads. A secret message. A ring with a warning about death . . . Printer''s apprentice Lucy Campion is caught up in a strange and puzzling murder case in this twisty historical mystery set in seventeenth-century London.</i></b><br><br><i>London, 1667. </i>On her way to a new market to peddle her <i>True Accounts </i>and <i>Strange News</i>, printer''s apprentice Lucy Campion quickly regrets her decision to take the northwestern road. Dark and desolate, the path leads her to the crossroads - and to the old hanging tree. She doesn''t believe in ghosts, but she''s not sure ghosts don''t believe in <i>her</i>.<br><br>But before she even reaches the crossroads, she''s knocked off her feet by two men in a hurry. What were they running from? To her dismay, she soon discovers for herself: there, dangling from the tree, is the body of a man.<br><br>Did he commit self-murder, or is there something darker afoot? The more Lucy learns, the more determined she is to unc