Leonard Tourney, Author . Forge $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0304-2
At the start of Leonard's literate and entertaining historical, set in 1603 and narrated with brio by the Bard himself, the Dark Lady of the sonnets lures her former lover, prosperous playwright Will Shakespeare, to a reunion tryst. Now wretched
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Leonard Tourney, Author Fawcett Books $4.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-345-38319-8
Occasional well-placed nods to the present day and a determined avoidance of period whimsy make Tourney's tales of Elizabethan sleuthing far superior to the usual intrigue-behind-court-walls saga. (Sept.)
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Leonard Tourney, Author St. Martin's Press $15.95 (250p) ISBN 978-0-312-01799-6
The sixth in a series of medieval mysteries by the author of The Bartholomew Fair Murders, this story places the Chelmsford clothier Matthew Stock and his canny wife, Joan, in the midst of a rather plodding bit of mayhem. At the express wish of...
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Leonard Tourney, Author St. Martin's Press $17.95 (282p) ISBN 978-0-312-04961-4
In another suspenseful, nicely researched story set in Elizabethan England by the author of Old Saxon Blood , Matthew Stock, clothier and constable of Chelmsford, Essex, and his wife, Joan, are guests of Londoner Thomas Cooke, member of the Inns of...
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Leonard Tourney, Author St. Martin's Press $18.95 (262p) ISBN 978-0-312-08339-7
Occasional well-placed nods to the present day and a determined avoidance of period whimsy make Tourney's tales of Elizabethan detection ( Knaves Templar , etc.) far superior to the usual intrigue-behind-court-walls saga. Chelmsford clothier and...
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Leonard Tourney, Author St. Martin's Press $20.95 (264p) ISBN 978-0-312-11437-4
In 1576, Elizabethan explorerer Martin Frobisher captured a ``round-faced, squinty-eyed, foul-smelling'' savage on the icy coast of Greenland and took him back to England, naming him Adam Nemo. Twenty years later, Adam is a servant on a Chelmsford...
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