A Famine of Horses
by:
P.F. Chisholm (author)
In the year 1592, Sir Robert Carey comes north to Carlisle to take up his new post. He has wangled his appointment to be nearer his true love. And of course, he can use the money....Rich in atmosphere and packed with vivid real and fictional characters, few novels are as well imagined or as much...
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In the year 1592, Sir Robert Carey comes north to Carlisle to take up his new post. He has wangled his appointment to be nearer his true love. And of course, he can use the money....Rich in atmosphere and packed with vivid real and fictional characters, few novels are as well imagined or as much fun as this romp through roguish courtiers, rival gangs, rustling, treason, and high ambition.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781890208271 (1890208272)
Publish date: January 1st 2000
Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press
Pages no: 268
Edition language: English
Series: Sir Robert Carey (#1)
Tudor England of the 1590s’. Chisholm steeps her story in so much 16th-century atmosphere and historical detail.The quality of the story is superb. PF Chisholm has a fine grasp of the character’s traits. They are all so very human and compelling. Sergeant Dodd for one is the epitome of the dour nort...
Wonderfully adventurous historical mystery, set among the Border Reivers in the reign of Elizabeth I. Sir Robert Carey, a courtier of the Virgin Queen returns to the Scots borderlands where he was raised to take a position as a Deputy Warden for his not terribly bright but terribly well connected b...
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