Paul C. Doherty, Author St. Martin's Press $18.95 (247p) ISBN 978-0-312-08876-7
In the summer of 1300, the body of Eleanor Belmont is found lifeless in the Oxfordshire nunnery to which she was confined after her lover, the Prince of Wales, was officially betrothed to the French king's daughter. Fearful that the peace between...
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Paul C. Doherty, Author St. Martin's Press $13.95 (187p) ISBN 978-0-312-01754-5
When Hugh Corbett, legal adviser and clerk to the Chancellor of England, is sent to Scotland in the wretchedly cold spring of 1286 to investigate the death of King Alexander III, he is met with hostility, suspicion and murderous rage. Did King...
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Paul C. Doherty, Author St. Martin's Press $12.95 (176p) ISBN 978-0-312-18651-7
Doherty's first novel, nothing less than a tour de force, draws the reader into England in 1344, 17 years after the overthrow of King Edward II. A dreadful series of events is chronicled in the letters of a clerk, Edmund Beche, ordered by Edward II...
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Paul C. Doherty, Author St. Martin's Press $0 (186p) ISBN 978-0-312-00059-2
Building on an actual murder in 1284, Doherty (The Death of a King auspiciously begins a mystery series featuring Hugh Corbett, clerk of the King's Bench. Lawrence Duket, goldsmith, kills Ralph Crepyn, moneylender, and flees to London's St. Mary Le...
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Paul C. Doherty, Author St. Martin's Press $16.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-312-02318-8
Re-creating England and France in the early 15th century, Doherty's new novel rivals his previous masterworks, most recently The Crown in Darkness. The narrator, despicable Matthew Jankyn, is forced by Bishop Beaufort, half-brother to King Henry IV,
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Paul C. Doherty, Author St. Martin's Press $14.95 (176p) ISBN 978-0-312-02984-5
Doherty once again makes 13th century England and France come vividly alive with this tale, based on a true incident, of skulduggery and treason in the courts of England, France and Scotland. Edward I of England orders senior clerk Hugh Corbett to...
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Paul C. Doherty, Author St. Martin's Press $14.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-03791-8
Medieval London comes vividly to life in this fourth investigation by Hugh Corbett, chief clerk to England's Edward I. In January 1299, at High Mass with the king and other nobles, Walter de Montfort, the Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral, falls dead,...
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Paul C. Doherty, Author St. Martin's Press $15.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-312-05429-8
What actually did happen to those princes who disappeared from the Tower of London? British writer Doherty, whose The Angel of Death recreated medieval London, now focuses vividly but more narrowly on the brief, anguished reign of Richard III. The...
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Paul C. Doherty, Author St. Martin's Press $16.95 (174p) ISBN 978-0-312-06409-9
In his latest historical mystery, Doherty ( The Fate of Princes ) tackles the story of the Man in the Iron Mask, a prisoner of such political consequence that Louis XIV of France ordered him locked away, forbidden to speak to anyone and condemned...
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Paul C. Doherty, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $23.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-312-27658-4
In 1478 B.C., in the Egyptian capital of Thebes, the judge Amerotke confronts a fascinating maze of puzzles, death and knife-edged political intrigue. Envoys from the defeated Mitanni nation have come to beg for a peace settlement by kissing the...
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Paul C. Doherty, Author St. Martin's Press $20.95 (249p) ISBN 978-0-312-10506-8
It is 1302 and England's Edward I is plagued by a revolt in Scotland, by the aggressive Philip IV of France and by the London slayings of a saintly old widow, a venerable priest and a string of prostitutes by ``someone . . . holy,'' clad in a monk's
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Paul C. Doherty, Author St. Martin's Press $19.95 (217p) ISBN 978-0-312-11554-8
Most of the ``bloody chess game'' in this seventh Hugh Corbett medieval mystery (after Murder Wears a Cowl) is played in or near Nottingham, where the sheriff has been poisoned and a masked bandit has sliced off the fingertips of King Edward's tax...
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Paul C. Doherty, Author St. Martin's Press $21 (248p) ISBN 978-0-312-11740-5
The author of the Hugh Corbett medieval stories (Murder Wears a Cowl) begins a new series based on Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. The pilgrims decide to ease the hardship of their journey with tales told by each of them in turn. The Knight is first off
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Paul C. Doherty, Author St. Martin's Press $21.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-312-17048-6
For the third time, following An Ancient Evil (1994) and a Tapestry of Murders (1996), Doherty spins a lush mystery out of the ribaldly picturesque world of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. It's 14th-Century England, and the Black Prince, black plague...
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Paul C. Doherty, Author Basic Books $25 (288p) ISBN 978-0-7867-1340-0
Alexander of Macedonia, student of Aristotle and conqueror of an empire that reached to Asia and Persia, vacillated often between cynicism and superstition. While distrustful of many of his companions, he believed that most of his misfortunes during
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P.C. Doherty, Minotaur, $25.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-67818-0
Whodunits don't get much better than this outstanding historical, Doherty's 16th Sir Hugh Corbett medieval mystery (after 2010's The Waxman Murders). Edward I dispatches Corbett, keeper of the secret seal, to Essex to recover an ornate cross claimed
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P.C. Doherty. Minotaur, $25.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-67502-8
The real-life murder of Count Raymond of Tripoli in 1152 kicks off Doherty’s excellent second Templar historical (after 2010’s The Templar). Templar Grand Master Bertrand Tremelai promptly orders the arrest of French Templar knight Edmund de Payens,
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P.C. Doherty. Minotaur, $25.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-67819-7
Set in early 14th-century England, Doherty’s 17th whodunit featuring Hugh Corbett, “the Keeper of the King’s Secret Seal,” maintains the high standard of the previous entry, 2011’s Nightshade. Having just helped to quell a riot involving members of...
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Paul C. Doherty, Author . Minotaur $24.95 (186p) ISBN 978-0-312-35961-4
In 1381, a series of inexplicable murderspits the impoverished peasants of Maldon, Essex, against the upper-class residents of Ravenscroft Castle in Doherty's diverting sixth Canterbury Tales mystery (after 2002's The Hangman's Hymn
),
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Paul C. Doherty, Author . Carroll & Graf $25 (320p) ISBN 978-0-7867-0853-6
In 334 B.C. Alexander the Great has decided to add Persia to his conquests, but finds his inner circle beset with intrigue and his own divine personage in peril as spies and murderers stalk the tents of his army in this fast-paced page-turner. The...
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Paul C. Doherty, Author . Carroll & Graf $25 (288p) ISBN 978-0-7867-0995-3
After his mighty victory at the Granicus in 334 B.C., Alexander the Great sweeps deeper into Persia in this multilayered and entertaining mystery, but when his army captures the city of Ephesus, the march of conquest seems doomed to halt in the face
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Paul C. Doherty, Author . Carroll & Graf $26 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7867-1075-1
Although the glorious riches of the young King Tutankhamun's tomb have been displayed in museums around the world, his death at age 18 remains shrouded in secrecy. Why was his burial so hasty? Why was he buried initially in a storeroom rather...
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Paul C. Doherty, Author . Carroll & Graf $25 (262p) ISBN 978-0-7867-1193-2
This tidy survey of the 14th-century reign of British king Edward II and his queen, Isabella, provides thumbnail sketches of a series of massacres, tortures, plots and counterplots leading to the mysterious circumstances surrounding the death of...
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Paul C. Doherty, Author . Carroll & Graf $24 (288p) ISBN 978-0-7867-1157-4
In 334 B.C., Alexander the Great's march toward world conquest halts before the formidable battlements of Halicarnassus in the third installment of British author Doherty's riveting historical series featuring the sleuthing of Telamon the...
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Paul C. Doherty, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $22.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-312-30090-6
Prolific British author Doherty, whose historicals have ranged as far back in time as ancient Egypt and the age of Alexander the Great, offers an entertaining medieval mystery, the fifth in a series (An Ancient Evil
, etc.) in which Chaucer's...
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Paul C. Doherty, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $23.95 (306p) ISBN 978-0-312-35960-7
Looting of the royal tombs in the Necropolis sets the stage for murder in British author Doherty's involved fifth puzzle (after 2002's The Slayers of Seth
) laid during Egypt's 18th Dynasty, in the third year of the reign of the fiery...
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Paul C. Doherty, Author . St. Martin’s Minotaur $24.95 (380p) ISBN 978-0-312-35962-1
Prolific British author Doherty (The Assassins of Isis
) spins a rich, complex tale of murder in this gripping ancient Egyptian mystery, his latest to feature “the Chief Judge in the Hall of Two Truths,” Lord Amerotke. In 1478 B.C.,...
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Paul C. Doherty, Author . Minotaur $24.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-312-53397-7
Ancient Egyptian cultists use modern terrorist tactics in Doherty's melodramatic seventh historical to feature Amerotke, Chief Judge in the Hall of Two Truths (after 2008's The Poisoner of Ptah
). Fanatical Nubian worshipers of the hyena...
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P.C. Doherty, Minotaur, $25.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-53396-0
Set in December 1303, Doherty's intricate 15th Hugh Corbett mystery (after 2009's The Magician's Death) opens after a prologue with Hugh, keeper of the secret seal of Edward I, riding into the snowbound cathedral city of Canterbury, where Sir Rauf...
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Paul C. Doherty, Author Minotaur Books $21.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-312-14052-6
Swift, intriguing and sometimes bleakly comic, this ""dark tale of blood and passion"" is told by one of Chaucer's pilgrims, the Man of Law. As he regales his fellow travelers with the horrendous events of 1358, the well-defined pilgrims offer...
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Paul C. Doherty, Author Minotaur Books $21.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-312-20560-7
In 1479 B.C., Pharaoh Tuthmosis II returns in triumph to the city of Thebes after a series of victorious battles in the Nile Delta. But soon after his homecoming, he dies in the arms of his wife, at the foot of a statue of his patron god, Amun-Ra....
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Paul C. Doherty, Author Minotaur Books $22.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-312-24263-3
A rash of murders taxes the sharp mind of Amerotke, the chief judge of Egypt at the start of the turbulent reign of Hatusu, some 3,500 years ago, when the ancient Egyptian empire was at its peak. The killings, beginning at the Hall of the Underworld,
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Paul C. Doherty, Author Minotaur Books $22.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-312-27287-6
The prolific Doherty brings us another masterful English medieval tale featuring Sir Hugh Corbett, who's still recovering from a bad wound received in his last outing, The Devil's Hunt (1998). It's 1303 and Edward I sends Corbett, Clerk of the...
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Paul C. Doherty, Author Minotaur Books $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-30087-6
The brutal murder of Abbot Stephen, of St. Martin's-in-the-Marsh, sets Hugh Corbett, Keeper of the King's Seal, on the sleuthing trail in the prolific P.C. Doherty's Corpse Candle: A Medieval Mystery Featuring Hugh Corbett. Rumors of a thief's...
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C. L. Grace, Author, Paul C. Doherty, Author Minotaur Books $23.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-312-31014-1
In C.L. Grace's A Feast of Poisons: A Kathryn Swinbrooke Mystery, the engrossing seventh entry in this 15th-century historical series (after 2003's A Maze of Murders), England's Lord Henry is in delicate negotiations with emissaries from the ...
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