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Hugh Corbett, #15
Minotaur Books
June 2010
On Sale: June 25, 2010
Featuring: Hugh Corbett
320 pages
ISBN: 0312533969
EAN: 9780312533960
Hardcover
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Mystery
In 1300, an English privateer named 'The Waxman' was trapped
and overrun by two powerful war cogs flying the streamers of
the powerful Hanseatic League of North Germany. The ship was
carrying a casket containing the 'Carta Mysteriosa', a
collection of valuable and detailed maps and sea charts. The
rulers of Europe, not to mention their merchant princes,
would wade through a sea of blood to obtain them. Three
years later Wilhelm Von Paulents, a representative of the
Hanseatic League, comes to England. Rumours have it that he
owns the sea charts and Sir Hugh Corbett is sent to
negotiate with Von Paulents. But the German visitors fall
ill of some mysterious ailment and the manor of Maubisson,
which has been set aside for them, is cordoned off in
accordance with city health regulations. Then, on the
morning of the fourth Sunday in Advent, Corbett is summoned
to a scene of bloody mayhem and murder: Von Paulents, his
wife, son and clerk have been barbarously assassinated. The
'Carta Mysteriosa' have not been stolen. So why were the
murders committed and by whom? Corbett investigates and,
once again, he enters the world of shadows to confront the
Seed of Cain
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