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Death And The Arrow Analysis
Death and the Arrow
Chris Priestley

Tom Marlowe is a typical and average fifteen year old who is an apprentice at his father’s printing shop, in London, England, in the year 1715. One day he finds out that his best friend, Will Piggot, has been murdered, after a series of mysterious murders in the city, and Tom is determined to find his friend’s killer. Death and the Arrow, by Chris Priestley, is a suspenseful and adventurous novel. Who murdered Will? Who has been murdering some of the people in the town? Those are just two of the many questions that readers, including me, ask, while reading the story. Death and the Arrow is so suspenseful because you never know what is going to happen next. What you think may happen, might not
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