Stated first edition. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. Dust soiling to the edges of the book's upper page block. Dust soiling to the jacket's rear panel. The author's first book.

The players' boy is dead

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Tourney, Leonard

Thrillers & Suspense

Harper&Row

Matthew Stock, constable of Chelmsford and his wife, Joan, must cope with the dangers and deceit of Elizabethan London as they search for a traitor disguised as a wealthy jeweler

Low Treason

Mystery

Ballantine Books

Matthew Stock, country constable, becomes involved in murderous matters when he discovers that a bear, trained to kill dogs for the St. Bartholomew Fair--attended by Queen Elizabeth of England--also kills people

The Bartholomew Fair Murders

Elizabethan mystery. Paperback book by Leonard Tourney.

The Players' Boy Is Dead: An Elizabethan Mystery

After Ursula Tusser is hanged for witchcraft, in an Essex town of Elizabethan England, Constable Matthew Stock, aided by his wife, Joan, tries to convince the frightened townspeople that the young woman's ghost is not haunting the town

Familiar Spirits (Elizabethan Mystery)

Commissioned by Queen Elizabeth to investigate the suspicious drowning of a prominent Lord, Elizabethan sleuths Matthew and Joan Stock pursue a mysterious murderer in Beauvoir Castle

Old Saxon Blood

One by one, law students in the Inns of Court are killing themselves -- or so it seems to all but County Constable Matthew Stock. Matthew knows a murder when he sees it, and soon he's in pursuit of a ghostly killer who is not above trying his skills on Matthew himself. Meanwhile, Matthew's wife, Joan, follows her nose through the brawling, bawdy streets of Elizabethan London, looking for clues to help her husband outwit his murderous nemesis. But who will help her?

Knaves Templar

Fawcett

"Adroitly blends British history with a wonderful cast of actual and fictional characters. And the Stocks, are, always, enterprising detectives and superb guides to 16th century London." ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH As Queen Elizabeth lays dying, there is a plot afoot to unseat her principle advisor, Sir Robert Cecil . Merchant-constable Matthew Stock's considers Sir Robert his master, and, determined to help his lord in any way, Matthew is lured to a murder scene--and the bloody knife next to the body turns out to be his own. Only the industrious and clever Joan Stock, Matthew's steadfast wife, is a liberty to save his neck from the gallows, that is until the plotters turn toward her--aiming to rid themselves of the one body who stands in their way....

Witness of Bones

This is one of three stories in a condensed book

Interlink Publishing+group Inc

Familiar Spirits

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The players' boy is dead

Low Treason

The Bartholomew Fair Murders

The Players' Boy Is Dead: An Elizabethan Mystery

Familiar Spirits (Elizabethan Mystery)

Old Saxon Blood

Knaves Templar

Witness of Bones

Low Treason

Familiar Spirits