THE STRONG ROOM

Please see any and all photos connected with this listing. The dustjacket is a bit scuffed but all pages intact and legible. Clean. No store stamps. --- --- Intrigue and adventure in the England of "Bloody" Mary Tudor. --- When John Aumarle, Earl of Bristol, walked out into Tudor England a free man, after eight years' imprisonment in the tower of London, he found himself plunged without warning into the center of a fantastic web of intrigue. . . . .Why did the blind and canny Lord Otterbridge offer to make a marriage match between Bristol and the Princess Elizabeth? . . . .Why did the Spanish ambassador, on behalf of his sovereign, court Bristol's favor? . . . .For what mysterious purpose did John Aumarle's brother Roger disappear to Allington Hall in Kent? . . . .What was behind the attacks on the Earl of Bristol's entourage by various stealthy assailants, all wearing the badge of Lord Courtenay? . . . .Who was the spy within Bristol's household, whose information reached the Queen's Council and was nearly Bristol's undoing? . . . .…