The Death Ship of Dartmouth — Michael Jecks

1324 -- A DISASTROUS AUTUMN LOOMS LARGE, for as the leaves begin to fall there are those who wish to bring the Kingdom down as well.

IN THE HAVEN OF DARTMOUTH, a man is found lying dead in the road. At sea a ship is discovered, half ravaged, in an attack that bears all the hallmarks of the supposedly disbanded Lyme Pirates. And Sir Baldwin de Furnshill has been told of spies being sent to the great traitor Roger Mortimer. If this is true, civil war in England is inevitable.

BALDWIN AND BAILIFF SIMON PUTTOCK embark on the most important investigation of their lives: fail and they will be executed. Succeed and there will be others ready to silence them for ever...