{"product_id":"2026200014325-secondhand-the-drowned-city","title":"The Drowned City","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdition: First ed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Very good\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eMarkings: Signed\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the treacherous, waterlogged streets of a city teetering on the brink of catastrophe, The Drowned City plunges the reader into a vividly realised historical world where secrets fester beneath the floodwaters and danger lurks around every rain-slicked corner. K. J. Maitland chronicles the investigations of Daniel Pursglove, a government intelligencer operating in the murky shadows of Jacobean England, as he is dispatched to a city besieged by rising tides and rising tensions, tasked with uncovering a conspiracy that threatens to consume the innocent and the guilty alike.\n\nMaitland, the pen name of acclaimed novelist Karen Maitland, brings her trademark mastery of atmosphere and period detail to bear, constructing a world that is at once historically meticulous and viscerally alive with menace. Her prose moves with the relentless pull of dark currents, weaving together threads of political intrigue, religious conflict, and human desperation into a tapestry that is as morally complex as it is compulsively readable. Notably, this copy bears the author's own signature — a rare and coveted find for any collector — and leaves one wondering what further shadows Pursglove must yet wade through before the truth finally surfaces.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49161011527899,"sku":"2026200014325-SECONDHAND","price":60.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/9936e80e-64df-4237-96d2-817a1daaa3ff.png?v=1787188957","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200014325-secondhand-the-drowned-city","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}