The Frost Fair

Edward Marston

First published in Great Britain in 2002 by

Copyright © 2002 by Edward Marston

EDWARD MARSTON was born and brought up in South Wales. A full-time writer for over thirty years, he has worked in radio, film, television and the theatre. Prolific and highly successful, he is equally at home writing children's books or literary criticism, plays or biographies and settings for his crime novels range from the world of professional golf to the compilation of the Domesday Survey. The Frost Fair is the fourth book in the series featuring architect Christopher Redmayne and Puritan constable Jonathan Bale, set in Restoration London after the Great Fire of 1666.

The frost still continuing more & more severe, the Thames before

London was planted with bothes in formal streetes, as in a Citty, or

Continual faire, all sorts of trades and shops furnished and full of

Commodities, even to a printing presse…

John Evelyn: Diary

January 24,1684