"Adroitly blends British history with a wonderful cast of actual and fictional characters. And the Stocks, are, always, enterprising detectives and superb guides to 16th century London."
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
As Queen Elizabeth lays dying, there is a plot afoot to unseat her principle advisor, Sir Robert Cecil . Merchant-constable Matthew Stock's considers Sir Robert his master, and, determined to help his lord in any way, Matthew is lured to a murder scene--and the bloody knife next to the body turns out to be his own. Only the industrious and clever Joan Stock, Matthew's steadfast wife, is a liberty to save his neck from the gallows, that is until the plotters turn toward her--aiming to rid themselves of the one body who stands in their way....
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From Publishers Weekly:
Occasional well-placed nods to the present day and a determined avoidance of period whimsy make Tourney's tales of Elizabethan sleuthing far superior to the usual intrigue-behind-court-walls saga.
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- PublisherFawcett
- Publication date1993
- ISBN 10 0345383192
- ISBN 13 9780345383198
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages260
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