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Title:

Blind Justice
 

Authors:

Genres:

Historical
Mystery
Private Investigator

Series:

Sir John Fielding Mysteries, the
1

Editions:

# Date Publisher Binding Cover
1 1994-09-00 G.P. Putnam's Sons  

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Blurb: 
In 1768, thirteen-year-old Jeremy Proctor arrived in London. The city streets, bustling with gamblers, prostitutes, and thieves, were certainly no place for a boy on his own, and trouble wasted no time in finding the lad. He was falsely charged with theft and arrested.

Jeremy was saved only by the wisdom and compassion of Sir John Fielding. Fielding was a man of great reputation, and for good reason. He had founded the Bow Street Runners, a police force that had reduced nighttime crime in London. He was as just as any magistrate in England. And Sir John was universally renowned for his skills as a detective. Most impressively, he has accomplished all this without the sense of sight.

But there was nothing lacking in his sense of justice, and after clearing Jeremy of the charges, Sir Johnand his new helper began a career of solving some of London's most wicked crimes...