Description
| Product ID: | 9780747236153 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Spy in Chancery (Hugh Corbett Mysteries, Book 3) |
| Subtitle: | Intrigue and treachery in a thrilling medieval mystery |
| Authors: | Author: Paul Doherty |
| Page Count: | 176 |
| Subjects: | Crime and mystery fiction, Crime & mystery, Historical fiction, Historical fiction |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating In the third novel of the Hugh Corbett series, he must find a spy who will stop at nothing, not even murder, to keep his identity secret Edward I of England and Philip IV of France are at war. Philip, by devious means, has managed to seize control of the English duchy of Aquitaine in France, and is now determined to crush Edward. King Edward suspects that his enemy is being aided by a spy in the English court and commissions his chancery clerk, Hugh Corbett, to trace and, if possible, destroy the traitor. Corbett''s mission brings him into danger on both land and at sea, and takes him to Paris, and its dangerous underworld, and then to hostile Wales. Unwillingly he is drawn into the murky undercurrents of international politics in the last decade of the thirteenth century. |
| Imprint Name: | Headline Book Publishing |
| Publisher Name: | Headline Publishing Group |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 1991-07-04 |
