Robin Hood Yard

Robin Hood Yard
Mark Sanderson

London, 1938. With a world war on the horizon, a shocking crime begins to unfold – and one reporter knows too much to be allowed to survive. An absorbing and gripping mystery from the critically acclaimed author of SNOW HILL.November, 1938. Europe is teetering on the edge of war…Anti-Semitism is on the rise in Britain, and a serial killer is at work in London.Johnny Steadman, investigative journalist, is called to the scene of a gruesome murder – a man has been tied to his bed, mutilated and left to bleed to death. This is the second time the killer has struck, and it won’t be the last. Together with DC Matt Turner, Johnny tries desperately to find a link between the victims.When the next Mayor of London is subjected to a vicious Anti-Semitic attack, Johnny begins to wonder if the two cases are connected. Against a backdrop of escalating violence in Nazi Germany, he uncovers a shocking conspiracy that could bring the United Kingdom to its knees. But will Johnny live to tell the tale?

MARK SANDERSON

Robin Hood Yard

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Dedication (#ue143ea3e-5f2a-5fb2-965a-575840654a04)

To Curtis, Lucy and Jack

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I had not thought death had undone so many.

T. S. Eliot, The Wasteland

Table of Contents

Cover (#u57fa6ce2-909e-5616-ab87-755bfe08fc0d)

Title Page (#u618de720-0d8f-5bbb-910b-b54256e456db)

Copyright (#u628872d2-a98c-5343-b8b8-dd76bbfa829b)

Dedication (#u88269200-6eb9-50ca-a38c-ccb9104b2d6a)

Epigraph (#uf5ae3250-95ab-5d99-9274-5bb1cc654224)

Foreword (#u73bf9c5e-998f-5ec7-a915-789bb5c66850)

Part One: Royal Exchange (#ua5dad7e0-afdd-5dd6-a8c3-58c031b14fa3)

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Chapter Two (#u29c73032-9171-5573-a202-98e86977dccd)

Chapter Three (#u215f43fe-78d7-59e3-9870-0473d5ca966a)

Chapter Four (#u095874be-f6cc-5ae0-b25c-93df842d0641)

Chapter Five (#uac961941-832a-555a-a755-c2eb50227724)

Chapter Six (#u9ecff01d-4ce0-5cbc-a0b3-3998974bc9f9)

Chapter Seven (#uf7707236-30b8-5ddc-83f5-0e9450885012)

Chapter Eight (#u77744a0f-9347-5b80-aba9-ef37910e3bc0)

Chapter Nine (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Ten (#litres_trial_promo)

Part Two: Ironmonger Row (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Eleven (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twelve (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Thirteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Fourteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Fifteen (#litres_trial_promo)