Bernard Knight

Gerince megtört, deformált. 1195. Prince John still plots to seize the throne from his brother, Richard the Lionheart--and in his wicked schemes, he is supported by Philip of France. The French king offers to help John financially by sending him a mysterious alchemist, a Mohammedan named Nizam,...

Gerince és hátsó fedlapja megtört. Exeter, 1195. When a prominent burgess and guild-master falls dead across his horse, Crowner John declines to hold an inquest as the man had been complaining of chest pains and shows no signs of injury. Events take a sinister turn, however, when a straw-dolly...

Foreword by Bernard Knight, M.D. Although Maton Helpern, retired Chief Medical Examiner of the City of New York, was probably the world's best known forensic pathologist, this professional supremacy was not his only major attribute. Above all else, he was a gentleman—and a gentle man. This...