1286 and on a storm-ridden night King Alexander III of Scotland is riding across the Firth of Forth to meet his beautiful French bride Yolande. He never reaches his final destination as his horse mysteriously slips, sending them both crashing to...
Sir John Cranston, the Coroner of the City of London, comes to survey the scene when the corpse of Edwin Chapler is pulled from the Thames. When more clerks are murdered, Cranston and Athelstan, his secretarius, have to pit their wits against a...