In the spring of 1666 everyone's first reaction to a sudden death
at the palace of White Hall is that the plague has struck, but the
killing of Thomas Chiffinch was by design, not disease. Chiffinch
was holder of two influential posts - Keeper of the Closet and
Keeper of the Jewels - and rival courtiers have made no secret of
their wish to succeed to those offices. To Thomas Chaloner, ordered
to undertake the investigation, such avarice gives a whole host of
suspects an ample motive for murder. The same courtiers are at the
heart of the royal entourage endorsing the King's licentious and
ribald way of life, and Chaloner has some sympathy with the
atmosphere of outrage and disgust at such behaviour. London's
citizens, already irked by the wealthy fleeing to the country at
the outbreak of the plague, have scant patience with the Court on
its return. The city is abuzz with rumours of dissent and
rebellion, fuelled by predictions from a soothsayer in Clerkenwell
of a rain of fire destroying the capital on Good Friday. Chaloner
initially dismisses such talk as nonsense, but as he uncovers ever
more connections to Clerkenwell among his suspects, he begins to
fear that there is also design behind the rumours - and that, come
Easter Day, the King and his Court might find themselves the focus
of yet another rebellion.
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