The Heresy of Dr Dee
Автор:
Rickman PhilЖанр:
Исторические детективы;Серия:
3Дата добавления:
2013-10-31Язык книги:
EnglishКол-во страниц:
86
All talk is of the End-time... and the dead are rising.
At the end of the sunless summer of 1560, black rumour shrouds the death of the one woman who stands between Lord Robert Dudley and marriage to the young Queen Elizabeth.
Did Dudley's wife, Amy, die from an accidental fall in a deserted house, or was it murder?
Even Dr John Dee, astrologer royal, adviser on the Hidden and one of Dudley's oldest friends, is uncertain.
Then a rash promise to the Queen sends him to his family's old home on the Welsh Border in pursuit of the Wigmore Shewstone, a crystal credited supernatural properties.
With Dee goes Robert Dudley, considered the most hated man in England.
They travel with a London judge sent to try a sinister Welsh brigand with a legacy dating back...
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