# Damn His Blood

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- Book: [Damn His Blood](https://www.bookquiver.com/peter-moore/damn-his-blood) ([Damn His Blood.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/peter-moore/damn-his-blood.md))
- Authors: [Peter Moore](https://www.bookquiver.com/peter-moore)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-00-9955-467-7
- Pages: 384
- Published: 2013-06-06
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

The brutal murder of the Reverend George Parker in the rural village of Oddingley on Midsummer's Day in 1806 - shot and beaten to death, his body set on fire and left smouldering in his own glebe field - gripped everyone from the Home Secretary in London to newspapermen across the country. It was a strange and stubborn case. The investigation lasted twenty-four years and involved inquests, judges and coroners, each more determined than the last to solve Oddingley's most gruesome crime - or crimes, as it turned out. With a cast of characters straight out of Hardy, Damn His Blood is a nail-biting true story of brutality, greed and ruthlessness which brings an elusive society vividly back to life.