After being stripped of his knighthood for treason and cast out from high society, Crispin Guest has reinvented himself as the Tracker, an investigator who can find anything and anyone. When Grayce, a distraught scullery maid arrives on his doorstep, frantic after finding a dead man in her room, Cri
Crispin Guest #02 - Serpent in the Thorns
β Scribed by Jeri Westerson
- Publisher
- Macmillan;Minotaur Books
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 159 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0312534981
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
After the French king's courier is killed by a crossbow in a tavern, a barmaid seeks the assistance of fourteenth-century detective Crispin Guest, who soon finds himself the prime suspect in the murder, one that could draw France and England into war
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