Blood lance: [a medieval noir]

✍ Scribed by Jeri Westerson

• Book ID: 100278511
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press;Minotaur Books
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 169 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 1250015855

✦ Synopsis

"Among the most courageous and compelling protagonists at work in fictional detection." --Richmond Times-Dispatch

Crispin Guest, returning home after a late night, sees a body hurtling from the uppermost reaches of the London Bridge. Guest's attempted rescue fails, however, and the man--an armourer with a shop on the bridge--is dead. While whispers in the street claim that it was a suicide, Guest--known in certain London circles as The Tracker for his skill in solving puzzles--is unconvinced.

What Guest uncovers is that the armourer had promised Sir Thomas Saunfayl, a friend from Guest's former life, that he would provide him something that would make him unbeatable in battle, something for which he'd paid a small fortune. Sir Thomas believes that the item was in fact the Spear of Longinus - the spear that pierced the side of Christ on the cross--which is believed to make those...