The elixir of death
By: Bernard Knight
Series: A Crowner John mystery; Crowner John mystery
Publisher: Clipper Large Print
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Rearsby
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781846328312
Subjects: Sir De Wolfe, John (Fictitious character); Fiction; Coroners; History
Description: It is 1195 and King Philip of France has dispatched an alchemist to assist Prince John in his efforts to steal the throne, but the ship taking him is found shipwrecked, and a Norman knight is brutally murdered shortly after. It is up to county coroner Sir John de Wolfe to find a connection between the deaths.
Notes: Originally published: London: Simon & Schuster, 2006.