Winner of the CWA John Creasey New Blood Dagger An MWA Edgar Scroll Winner of the CWA Ellis Peters Historical Award (three times) Winner of the CWA''s prestigious Diamond Dagger London, September 1666. The Great Fire rages. Among the crowds watching as flames reduce St. Paul''s Cathedral to ruins is Richard Marwood, son of a disgraced printer and reluctant government informer. When a semi-mummified body is discovered in the ashes in what should have been an empty tomb, Marwood is tasked with hunting a killer across the devastated city.