Queens' Play
For the first time Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles are available in the United States in quality paperback editions.Second in the legendary Lymond Chronicles, Queen's Play follows Frances Crawford of Lymond who has been abruptly called into the service of Mary Queen of Scots. Though she is only a...
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For the first time Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles are available in the United States in quality paperback editions.Second in the legendary Lymond Chronicles, Queen's Play follows Frances Crawford of Lymond who has been abruptly called into the service of Mary Queen of Scots. Though she is only a little girl, the Queen is already the object of malicious intrigues that extend from her native country to the court of France. It is to France that Lymond must travel, exercising his sword hand and his agile wit while also undertaking the most unlikely of masquerades, all to make sure that his charge's royal person stays intact.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780679777441 (067977744X)
Publish date: April 29th 1997
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 432
Edition language: English
Category:
Adventure,
Classics,
Novels,
Literature,
Cultural,
Historical Fiction,
Romance,
Historical Romance,
France,
16th Century,
Scotland
Series: The Lymond Chronicles (#2)
Series: Lymond Chronicles #2 Francis Crawford goes undercover to help protect little Queen Mary from the attempts on her life disguised as accidents. Of course he does this in a completely Lymond style where he almost gets sent home his first week and he’s later suspected of doing things he didn’t...
A bit different from the first book in the series, as Lymond is James Bond, but still very much Lymond. Loved it.
It is two years since the close of The Game of Kings and someone is planning the murder of young Mary Queen of Scots, and Mary of Guise summons Francis Crawford of Lymond to France to stop the murderous plot. Francis comes in disguise as a member of the entourage of a Prince of Ireland, and the game...