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Pan Macmillan has acquired two books in a historical mystery series from author Robin Blake. Macmillan New Writing commissioning editor Will Atkins bought world rights from Gill Coleridge at Rogers, Coleridge & White, for a good five-figure advance.
The series is set in Lancashire in the 1740s and features Coroner Titus Cragg and Dr Luke Fidelis. The first book is provisionally titled Awake in the Night, and sees Cragg & Fidelis investigating the death of the local squire’s wife. The book will be published in hardback in January 2011 and the sequel will follow in 2012.
Atkins said: "Cragg & Fidelis join the pantheon of great historical detectives – they feel like characters we’ve known forever – yet there’s a wit and ingenuity to Robin’s writing that is all his own."
Blake is currently a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Brunel University.