The Black Death by Basil Copper

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                                                                          Basil Copper. The Black Death (1991) Fedogan & Bremer 



The Black Death is a gothic thriller in the tradition of Copper's Necropolis and The House of the Wolf. Architect John Carter leaves London to become a junior partner in a prosperous building firm in Thornton Bassett, a rustic village in the heart of Dartmoor. His hopes for a new life begin to cloud as he slowly becomes aware of a sinister mystery lurking beneath the village's placid facade.

A beautifully atmospheric novel written by a master of the macabre, this novel should appeal to fans of gothics, Sherlockians, and anyone who remembers fondly the more genteel horrors of Bram Stoker and Arthur Conan Doyle.

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If I may be permitted to deviate a bit. At the height of the plague they couldn't help but notice that cavalry soldiers never got the black death...never. That is because the fleas that carried bubonic plague cannot stand the smell of horses.

At first people wrapped horse blankets around themselves as a "cure". From there they eventually were able to figure it all out.