he began, and then changed his mind. He was up off his chair and had crossed the room to Thomas the Merchant’s desk and swept the ledger out from under his long thin nose before the Merchant could do no more than take in a gasp of surprise. Carey flipped quickly through the pages, squinting at th...
‘It is. There’s rarely any need to murder your husband if ye’ve any men in your family at all.’Carey coughed. It wasn’t what he had meant.‘But…’ Janet was sticking her finger under his nose which annoyed him. ‘But in your ain marriage bed so the blood gets all over the sheets and the blankets ye’...
“Please will you, mistress?” “Perhaps. Why should I?” “I have a warrant from Her Majesty.” The old lady lifted the warrant and squinted at it from the side of one eye. “Queen’s seal, give aid and so on. Yes. So what? Might be...
Vice will simply claim that he was looking for me and laid hold of my henchman to track me down,” said Carey. “I’m sure he will,” said Enys. “However the fact remains that you were not accused of treason either, Sir Robert. Even your brother was accused only of coining, which may indeed come unde...
London was no different from anywhere else they had passed on the interminable way south. As their horses toiled up the long hill from Golders Farm, Dodd could just glimpse a robber’s corpse dangling from a big elm tree, up on the brow. Of course Sir Robert Carey had told him how close they were ...
words that come to mind when describing P.F. Chisholm’s rousing Elizabethan detections is remarkable. Filled with rakish, ruthless, reckless, rapacious, rough-riding, ruffianly, rascally, reprobative, roguish, occasionally rueful rapscallions, raiders, and reivers, they are rich, ribald, rowdy, r...
He came to his feet with his sword in his hand only to find Carey standing there, while he pissed, staring to the north. Considering the probable time, Carey must have slept for twelve hours straight through, maybe more. His face was pale but the swelling was almost gone a...
