The Georgian mystery “Death at the Beggar’s Opera” by Deryn Lake follows apothecary John Rawlings as he looks into death at “The Beggar’s Opera” for the blind magistrate known as “Blind Beak.”
About the Author
Deryn Lake
Deryn Lake was the author identity Dinah Lampitt adopted for historical mysteries. She created the apothecary John Rawlings as an investigator in eighteenth-century England, drawing the character from biographical material about a real English apothecary. Death in the Dark Walk opened the sequence. Later cases…