Publisher's Synopsis
It's 1727. Tom Hawkins is damned if he's going to follow in his father's footsteps and become a country parson. Not for him a quiet life of prayer and propriety. No, he loves women: lots of them. Ale: jugs of it. And gambling. But Tom's principled and proper too, and won't pull family strings to get himself out of debt. Not even when faced with the very real horrors of London's notorious debtors' prison: The Marshalsea Gaol. Offered the opportunity to free himself by solving a murder, Tom finds his principles tested to the limit.
