One for Sorrow

• Date de parution : 01/12/2012
• Editeur : Head Of Zeus
• EAN : 9781908800893
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• Support : Livre numérique

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BYZANTINE MYSTERIES: captured as a mercenary in Egypt, castrated and sold into slavery, John has worked his way through the palace hierarchy to become Lord Chamberlain to the Christian Emperor Justinian. ONE FOR SORROW: When the body of Leukos, the Keeper of the Plate, is found in a filthy... Voir plus

BYZANTINE MYSTERIES: captured as a mercenary in Egypt, castrated and sold into slavery, John has worked his way through the palace hierarchy to become Lord Chamberlain to the Christian Emperor Justinian. ONE FOR SORROW: When the body of Leukos, the Keeper of the Plate, is found in a filthy alley behind a house of ill repute, the emperor asks John to investigate. John obliges because, as Leukos's friend, he can't imagine what a devout Christian such as Leukos was doing in a whorehouse, or who would have wanted to murder the kindly man. The obvious suspect is an itinerant soothsayer. But again, John can't fathom why his friend would be courting such pagan practices such as having his fortune told. Oddly, after John talks to him, the man vanishes, rumoured to have drowned in the sea while trying to flee the city. After the soothsayer disappears, however, Emperor Justinian seems suddenly cool to John's efforts to pursue evidence against other possible culprits.