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  • Bibliography:
    14 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1980
  • Latest Book:
    October 2023
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Full Series List in Order

A Joan and Matthew Stock Mystery

1 - The Player's Boy Is Dead (1980)
2 - Low Treason (Jan-1983)
3 - Familiar Spirits (1984)
4 - The Bartholomew Fair Murders (Jun-1986)
5 - Old Saxon Blood (Aug-1988)
6 - Knaves Templar (Jan-1991)
7 - Witness of Bones (Oct-1992)
8 - Frobisher's Savage (Oct-1994)

A Mystery of Shakespeare

Time's Fool (Jun-2004)

William Gilbert

1 - The Cuckold's Bride (Oct-2022)
2 - The Kindness of Witches (Apr-2023)

Book List in Order: 14 titles





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    There is much that is entertaining in Elizabethan England, colorful and merrie for both Good Queen Bess and her people. But there are matters savage and murderous, too, and it is County Constable Matthew Stock, a humble clothier by trade, and his pra...



  • Matthew Stock, country constable, becomes involved in murderous matters when he discovers that a bear, trained to kill dogs for the St. Bartholomew Fair--attended by Queen Elizabeth of England--also kills people...



  • There is much that is entertaining in Elizabethan England, colorful and merrie for both Good Queen Bess and her people. But there are matters savage and murderous, too, and it is County Constable Matthew Stock, a humble clothier by trade, and his pra...



  • There is much that is entertaining in Elizabethan England, colorful and merrie for both Good Queen Bess and her people. But here are matters savage and murderous, too, and it is County Constable Matthew Stock, a humble clothier by trade, and his prac...



  • As Queen Elizabeth slowly dies, Puritans and Papists play a deep game of deception. A plot is already afoot to unseat her principal advisor, Sir Robert Cecil, by destroying his good name. Therefore merchant-constable Matthew Stock, who considers Sir ...



  • In their eighth case, Elizabethan sleuths Joan and Matthew Stock investigate a murder in which an Eskimo, brought to England in 1576 by Sir Martin Frobisher, becomes a suspect because of blind prejudice, in a mystery based on factual events....



  • ANDREW GREELEY introduces a monk of the Middle Ages who investigates corruption in the Vatican to crack "The Case of the Murdered Pope"... Sir John Fielding, a blind eighteenth-century magistrate, confronts crime at a stuffy dinner party in BRUCE ALE...






  • The crime's the thing.

    William Shakespeare is perhaps the most famous and prolific playwright of all time. Millions have read and seen his works, but few know the man behind the works. For all his fortune and fame, little did he know that the ...



  • London 1604 - In the reign of King James I, religious tensions threaten to rise out of control.Dedicated to his writing and performing, successful playwright, Will Shakespeare, finds his life disturbed by the return of an old friend, Gabriel Catesby....



  • As Elizabethan England reels from the clash of religious and renaissance ideas, a young pregnant woman dies. Did jealousy kill her - or science?Doctor William Gilbert is the epitome of the renaissance scientist. Interested in philosophy and true scie...



  • In sixteenth century England, fear of witchcraft abounds. But witches are not the only source of evil, as Dr William Gilbert will discover ...When Dr William Gilbert is caught in an Essex snowstorm, his life is saved by a strange, wolf-like dog. Take...



  • MEET DR WILLIAM GILBERT IN THIS ENTHRALLING ELIZABETHAN HISTORICAL MYSTERY.16th Century England.Dr William Gilbert enjoys the company of one of his more accomplished patients, a Jewish-born Christian convert now living in the Domus.But when the man i...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Leonard Tourney has published 14 books.

Leonard Tourney does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, SOLOMON'S GOLD, was published in October 2023.

The first book by Leonard Tourney, The Player's Boy Is Dead, was published in January 1980.

Yes. Leonard Tourney has 3 series.