Kilkenny, 1324. Alice Kyteler, outspoken daughter of a wealthy Flemish banker, has survived four husbands and is beset by the gossip and rivalry of a medieval Anglo-Norman town. Her beautiful maid is Petronilla, child of an itinerant shoemaker, her lover Sir Arnaud le Poer is seneschal and lord of s
The Devil to Pay
โ Scribed by Queen, Ellery
- Book ID
- 107868363
- Publisher
- Langtail Press
- Year
- 1973
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 115 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
Stocks rose, stocks fell, but Solly Spaeth always came out ahead. The fat little man with the computer mind was a financial magician -- a wizard at making other people's money disappear into his own pocket. Then Spaeth made one fast deal too many, and someone decided to make a different kind of killing. By the time Ellery Queen arrived on the scene, Solly had cashed in his blue chips, everyone including his loving mistress and his hating son was a suspect -- and Ellery had no margin for error as he plunged into a game of wits with a murderer too deadly to sell short...
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