Five for Silver
β Scribed by Reed, Mary; Mayer, Eric
- Book ID
- 110280122
- Publisher
- Poisoned Pen Press, Inc.
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 190 KB
- Series
- John the Lord Chamberlain 5
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781615951703
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Winner, Glyph Award for Best Book Series
Nominee, Bruce Alexander History Mystery Award
In 542, Peter, John the Lord Chamberlain's elderly servant, claims a heavenly visitor revealed a murder to him. It transpires that Peter's old army friend has indeed been stabbed, but then John discovers that Gregory was not what he appeared to be.
John's quest for the truth leads him to churchmen and whores, lawyers and bear trainers. Suspects include a dealer in dubious antiquities, a resourceful bookseller, a court poet fixated on bereavement, and a holy fool who outrages the city by dancing with the dead and invading the empress' private bath....
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