A Suspicion of Silver
β Scribed by Chisholm, P. F.;Monmouth, Robert Carey
- Publisher
- Poisoned Pen Press, Inc.
- Year
- 2018
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 335 KB
- Series
- Sir Robert Carey 9
- Edition
- First edition
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- Great Britain,Great Britain., Great Britain--Scottish Borders., Scottish Borders (England and Scotla
- ISBN
- 1464210462
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Edinburgh, 1593. The new year begins.
Sir Robert Carey has just foiled a double plot against King James. He rides for Leith hunting the would-be assassin now identified as Joachim Hochstetter, also known as Jonathan Hepburn. Has he taken ship for the Continent, or ridden nearly 130 miles south and west into England? There at Keswick, his family, originally from Augsburg, runs a mining operation that pays a royalty to Queen Elizabeth in gold. It's ruled by the widow Radagunda Hochstetter, his mother.
Sir Robert's other problem? His dour, difficult, and now treasonous henchman, Sergeant Henry Dodd, has disappeared somewhere on the snowy moors. Why can't anyone find Dodd's body?
Before going after Hochstetter, Carey must escort Dodd's widow back to her home at Gilsland. It's a complex operation involving a cart, Widow Ridley and Skinabake Armstrong. That's the man who sold Janet Dodd to Wee Colin, the Elliot headman, on her way to Edinburgh before Dodd...
β¦ Subjects
Great Britain -- Scottish Borders
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