Вуаль лжи

Когда-то сэр Криспин Гест входил в число самых блистательных рыцарей Англии. Теперь, оскорбленный и обесчещенный, по просьбе купцов и богатых ремесленников он ведет слежку за неверными женами и проворовавшимися подмастерьями. Вот и предложение знатного торговца Николаса Уолкота – найти любовника его красавицы жены Филиппы – Криспин поначалу расценивает как возможность заработать. Однако все выходит не так. Николас Уолкот убит при загадочных обстоятельствах, и сейчас гибель грозит, похоже, уже самой Филиппе – женщине, пробудившей в сердце рыцаря жгучую, пламенную страсть…

Оригинальная анотация:

Crispin Guest is a disgraced knight, stripped of his rank and his honor - but left with his life - for plotting against Richard II. Having lost his bethrothed, his friends, his patrons and his position in society. With no trade to support him and no family willing to acknowledge him, Crispin has turned to the one thing he still has - his wits - to scrape a living together on the mean streets of London. In 1383, Guest is called to the compound of a merchant - a reclusive mercer who suspects that his wife is being unfaithful and wants Guest to look into the matter. Not wishing to sully himself in such disgraceful, dishonorable business but in dire need of money, Guest agrees and discovers that the wife is indeed up to something, presumably nothing good. But when he comes to inform his client, he is found dead - murdered in a sealed room, locked from the inside. Now Guest has come to the unwanted attention of the Lord Sheriff of London and most recent client was murdered while he was working for him. And everything seems to turn on a religious relic - a veil reported to have wiped the brow of Christ - that is now missing.

Время и место действия: Англия, 1384 год.

Дата выхода романа: 2008 год

Переводчик: И.Судакевич

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***ACT, 2010 (Серия "Шарм")

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