The Lamb Inn

Explore the dark secrets of a Sussex coaching inn at the heart of a local smuggling ring.

Secrets, suspicion and smuggling.

An atmospheric historical mystery of midnight ambushes, local conspiracies and a seven-year struggle for the upper hand.

Shoreham, Sussex, early nineteenth century. Thomas Blackwood is the respected landlord of the Lamb Inn, known for his fairness, discretion and quiet concern for the welfare of the village. What few outsiders realise is that Shoreham’s prosperity depends upon something far less respectable: smuggling.

Across the Channel, ships move through the darkness carrying brandy, tobacco and silk. Along the Sussex coast, a carefully organised network moves the goods inland before the authorities can intervene. The system has worked perfectly for years, until a frightened runner makes a desperate mistake.

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