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Joan and Matthew Stock must use their powers of detection and deduction for self-defense when their return to London embroils them in a very personal case of murder and mystery
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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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Occasional well-placed nods to the present day and a determined avoidance of period whimsy make Tourney's tales of Elizabethan detection ( Knaves Templar , etc.) far superior to the usual intrigue-behind-court-walls saga. Chelmsford clothier and local constable Matthew Stock is summmoned to London with his wife, Joan, by their friend Robert Cecil, a trusted adviser to the ailing Queen Elizabeth. He wants them to investigate the case of a Catholic martyr who has seemingly risen from the grave, prompting some to claim a miracle; Cecil sees a papist plot with political insurrection as its goal. Before the Stocks can trace the conspiracy, Matthew is accused of murdering a minister who has been preaching against the miracle, and Joan must sleuth on her own in a society reluctant to allow a plucky, forthright woman any independence. Tourney neither belabors nor neglects his setting, and although his puzzle's solution isn't very gripping, the Stocks make wonderful guides to a world quite different from our own, yet sometimes shockingly familiar.
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- PublisherSt Martins Pr
- Publication date1992
- ISBN 10 0312083394
- ISBN 13 9780312083397
- BindingHardcover
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- Number of pages262
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