Witness of Bones - Brossura

Tourney, Leonard D.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0345383192 ISBN 13: 9780345383198

Casa editrice: Ballantine Books, 1993

Riassunto

During the late Elizabethan era, when Puritans and Papists are fighting for power, merchant-constable Matthew Stock is framed for a devious murder and only his clever wife, Joan, can save him from the gallows. Reprint.

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ly 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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• Editore: Ballantine Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0345383192
• ISBN 13: 9780345383198
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile