P. F Chisholm
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Sir Robert Carey mysteries volume 5
Language
English
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It's September 1592, and the dark streets of London are full of people up to no good. The redoubtable Sergeant Dodd and that dashing Elizabethan gunslinger Sir Robert Carey are in London where Carey's powerful father, Lord Henry Hunsdon, wants him to solve the mystery of a corpse that has washed up from the Thames River onto Her Majesty's privy steps. Meanwhile, Sergeant Dodd is plotting how to take suitable revenge for his mistreatment by the Queen's...
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English
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Sir Robert Carey when he was eight years old -- was he a quiet, studious boy?Er... no. He plays tricks on everyone, runs his tutor ragged, and is utterly heedless. He's also charming, persuasive, full of energy. and an absolute nuisance to his loving parents, Henry Carey Lord Hunsdon and Lady Ann Carey.This short story introduces the young Robin and leads on to a second story, A Boy in Trouble.
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Sir Robert Carey mysteries volume 7
Language
English
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Thursday, 12th October, 1592. Eighteen days after the action closes in An Air of Treason, courtier Sir Robert Carey and Carey's surly, larcenous, and loyal henchman Henry Dodd, Land Sergeant of Gilsland, are back in Carlisle and the Debateable Lands -- the Border country, the Wild North, the land of the hot trod where the thieving, feuding reiver clans are "English when it suited, and Scots at their pleasure." A Chorus of Innocents ushers forward...
Author
Series
Sir Robert Carey mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Walker and Co
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
Author
Series
Sir Robert Carey mysteries volume 8
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"It's late August, 1592. Sir Robert Carey, cousin to Queen Elizabeth from the wrong side of Henry VIII's blanket, remains at his post on the Borders at Carlisle. He has at last been confirmed by his monarch as Deputy Warden, is still deeply in love with Lady Elizabeth Widdrington while despising her elderly, abusive husband (will the man never die?). And he remains estranged from his dour but lethal henchman, Henry Dodd, Land-Sergeant of Gilsland,...
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Series
Sir Robert Carey mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2000, c1998
Language
English
Author
Series
Sir Robert Carey mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
After his hair-raising adventures in London, Sir Robert Carey has finally tracked down Queen Elizabeth, who is about to make a state visit to Oxford. But instead of giving the Courtier his much-needed warrant and fee for being Deputy Warden of the West March with Scotland, Her Majesty orders him to investigate the most dangerous cold case of her reign--the mysterious 1560 death of Amy Dudley (née Robsart), unloved wife of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester....
Author
Series
Sir Robert Carey mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Walker and Co
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English