In the seventh action-packed novel of the series, medieval sleuth Hugh Corbett is despatched to investigate murder and mystery in Nottingham.

### From Publishers Weekly

Most of the "bloody chess game" in this seventh Hugh Corbett medieval mystery (after Murder Wears a Cowl) is played in or near Nottingham, where the sheriff has been poisoned and a masked bandit has sliced off the fingertips of King Edward's tax collector. Has Robin Hood, pardoned by the king, returned to Sherwood Forest after fighting for the Crown in Scotland? But what a changed Robin! He and his outlaws, no longer heroes to the common folk, now slaughter savagely and with little discrimination. The king sends Corbett, his trusted senior clerk and Keeper of the Secret Seal, to investigate the sheriff's slaying. At the same time, Corbett is dodging Achitophel, an elusive assassin sent after him by King Philip of France, and struggling to solve a captured cipher that holds the key to where in Flanders Philip will attack England's allies, the Flemings. As Doherty's cinematic descriptions zero in on hangings, throat-slittings and torture, with filth, stench and gore galore, Corbett battles his way to a smashing-if predictable-solution.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

### From Library Journal

Dispatched to Nottingham to investigate the sheriff's murder, Sir Hugh Corbett, agent of 14th-century King Edward I, learns that Robin Hood has apparently claimed responsibility. Corbett, of course, suspects otherwise. From the author of Murder Wears a Cowl (St. Martin's, 1994).
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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