The Elixir of Death

Bernard Knight

ISBN 10: 1847399916 / ISBN 13: 9781847399915

Published by Pocket Books, 2006

About this Item

Very good condition. Minor edgewear. Clean and all intact. No writing or marking. Not Ex-Library.

Seller Inventory # 9200

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Elixir of Death
• Publisher: Pocket Books
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1847399916
• ISBN 13: 9781847399915
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fiction

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Synopsis

1195. Prince John still plots to seize the throne from his brother, Richard the Lionheart--and in his wicked schemes, he is supported by Philip of France. The French king offers to help John financially by sending him a mysterious alchemist, a Mohammedan named Nizam, who claims to be able to turn base materials into gold. But the ship that was transporting Nizam and his retainers is found wrecked off the south Devon coast, its crew savagely slaughtered. Shortly afterward, a Norman knight named Peter le Calve is foully murdered, his severed head stuck on the rood screen of Exeter cathedral. It's up to Sir John de Wolfe, the county coroner, to find a motive and connection between the killings. And just what is his unscrupulous brother-in-law, the disgraced ex-sheriff and Prince John-sympathizer, Richard de Revelle, trying to hide?