Knaves Templar — Leonard Tourney

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 practical-minded wife Joan who oft must set things right--in a widely acclaimed mystery series as rich in historical detail as it is in suspense.

One By One, Law Students In The Inns Of Court Are Being Relieved Of Their Lives....

All are deemed suicides, but in truth they are murders, and it befalls Matthew Stock to unriddle the truth. Moving into a chamber in the Middle Temple that had been the room of one of the victims, he pursues a ghostly killer who is not above trying his skill on Matthew himself. Meanwhile, Matthew's wife, Joan, follows her nose through London's brawling, bawdy streets, where--in a sinister stewpot aptly named the Gull--she uncovers what she can scarcely believe: a secret connection between this filthy, dangerous tavern and the foul crimes her husband is risking his life to solve....