The winter of 1353 brings new confusion to the people of Cambridge. Torrential rains spread fever to the poor, and make travelling hazardous along the town’s outlaw-infested roads. Then three members of the University die by drinking poisoned...
Der trinkfreudige Coroner Sir John und sein scharfsinniger Schreiber Bruder Athelstan werden durch einige geheimnisvolle Morde bei ihren Recherchen auf die Spur eines geraubten Schatzes des Kalifen geführt - und erfahren die Leiden...
»Vom schlachtschlagenden Ritter über steifgefrorene, am Galgen baumelnde Piraten und von Ratten angenagten Skeletten bis hin zu sinnierenden Meuchelmördern ist alles versammelt, was das mordliebende Herz begehrt. Das ist eben die...
Three savage murders have occured in the parish, two at the hands of an assassin and one victims identity and death still a mystery. Could the deaths be related to one of Brother Athelstan's parishioners, accused of multiple murders in "the field...
It’s late spring in 1321 and as Sir Baldwin Furnshill, Keeper of the King’s Peace, prepares for his wedding, he receives the news that one of his guests, Roger, Squire of Throwleigh, has just died.
Roger’s death is sad, though not entirely...