title: Evidence of Blood: A Novel
author:  Thomas H. Cook 
description: "In [his] previous novels...Cook has shown himself to be a writer of poetic gifts, constantly pushing against the presumed limits of crime fiction.... In this fine new book, he has gone to the edge, and survived triumphantly."<br />--Charles Champlin, <i>Los Angeles Times Book Review</i><br /><br />"A highly satisfying story, strong in color and atmosphere, intelligent and exacting."<br /><i>--The New York Times Book Review</i>
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  Title:	Colonel	Thomas	Blood
  							Crown-stealer	1618-1680
  Author:	Wilbur	Cortez	Abbott
  Release	Date:	February	22,	2014	[EBook	#44980]
  Language:	English
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  COLONEL
  THOMAS	BLOOD
  CROWN-STEALER
  1618-1680
  BY
  WILBUR	CORTEZ	ABBOTT
  PROFESSOR	OF	HISTORY,	SHEFFIELD	SCIENTIFIC	SCHOOL
  YALE	UNIVERSITY
  ROCHESTER,	NEW	YORK
  1910
  COPYRIGH