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VICAR BREKONRIDGE IBD

RICHARD HELMS
LEVEL BEST - HISTORIA
10 / 2023
9781685123529
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Sinopsis

On a frigid January day on LondonâÇÖs Whitehall in 1843, a Scottish woodturner named Daniel MâÇÖNaghten guns down Edward Drummond, believing him to be British Prime Minister Robert Peel. MâÇÖNaghten, who sympathizes with the Chartist cause in Great Britain, claims he intended to murder the Prime Minister-a Tory-because he blames Peel for persecution by the Tories in his home city of Glasgow. Queen Victoria, incensed at the most recent attempt on a high government officialâÇÖs life, demands that MâÇÖNaghten be hanged. MâÇÖNaghten, however, demonstrates every accepted sign of insanity, which would save him a visit to Tyburn Tree. QueenâÇÖs Counsel Alexander Cockburn is hired to defend MâÇÖNaghten, and he recruits legendary thief-taker Vicar Brekonridge to travel to Glasgow to investigate MâÇÖNaghtenâÇÖs claims, with the goal of supporting an insanity plea. He sends young law clerk Simon Daughtrey to Glasgow with Brekonridge, and together they uncover contradictory evidence suggesting that MâÇÖNaghtenâÇÖs motivations in the murder of Edward Drummond might be considerably more sinister than mental illness. With MâÇÖNaghtenâÇÖs trial days away, Brekonridge and Daughtrey race to find the truth behind the assassination of Edward Drummond.á