In 1678 Titus Oates claimed to have uncovered a Jesuit conspiracy to murder Charles II, and when the magistrate Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey was found dead, London fell into hysteria. Pollock sets out to answer the three mysteries Lord Acton named to him: what passed between Coleman and Père la Chaize, how Oates came by his false story, and who killed Godfrey.
A tightly argued investigation that reads like a historical detective story, for lovers of Restoration politics and unsolved crimes. Download the free EPUB.