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A Conspiracy of Paper
By David Liss
F LISS
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.

The Scarlet Pimpernel
By Baroness Emmuska Orczy
F ORCZY
Sir Percy Blakeney leads titled Englishmen in assisting the escape of emigrés threatened during the terrors of the French Revolution.

Montmorency: Thief, Liar, Gentleman?
By Eleanor Updale
YA F UPDALE
In Victorian London, after his life is saved by a young physician, a thief utilizes the knowledge he gains in prison and from the scientific lectures he attends as the physician's case study exhibit to create a new, highly successful, double life for himself.

Master and Commander
By Patrick O'Brian
F O'BRIAN
Captain Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin fight in the Napoleonic Wars.

The Black Tulip
By Alexandre Dumas
F DUMAS
During the 17th century, William of Orange supports the tulip agitation against Johan de Witt and his brother in Haarlem.