num_pages: 184
description: It's 1672 in Port Royal Jamaica. John James London bricklayer's apprentice turned pirate is returning from the sack of Panama with his share of the loot (a lousy 200 pieces of eight) and a resolve to go back to bricklaying since piracy pays so badly. First though he has a duty: he must deliver a letter to a lady. The letter is from his dead comrade Sir Thomas Blackstone who was a court intriguer on a mission for Prince Rupert of the Rhine. The letter's recipient is Clarissa Waverly Blackstone's mistress and accomplice. Before he went off to Panama Blackstone hid four thousand pounds of the prince's money unwilling to trust his lady friend not to make off with it in his absence. Dying of battle wounds he wrote to let her know where he'd concealed the money.
language: English
title: Or Else My Lady Keeps the Key
publisher: Subterranean Press