Wolf on a string / Benjamin Black.

By:

Black, Benjamin, 1945- [author.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Thorndike Press large print mystery seriesPublication details: Waterville, Maine Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning 2017.Edition: Large print editionDescription: 479 pages (large print) ; 23 cmISBN:

9781410492487 (large print : hardback)
1410492486 (large print : hardcover)

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DDC classification:

823/.914 23

LOC classification:

PR6052.A57 W65 2017b

Other classification:

FIC022060 | FIC014000 | FIC030000

Summary: "Christian Stern, an ambitious young scholar and alchemist, arrives in Prague in the bitter winter of 1599, intent on making his fortune at the court of the Holy Roman Emperor, the eccentric Rudolf II. The night of his arrival, drunk and lost, Christian stumbles upon the body of a young woman in Golden Lane, an alley hard by Rudolf's great castle. Dressed in a velvet gown, wearing a large gold medallion around her neck, the woman is clearly well-born--or was, for her throat has been slashed. A lesser man would smell danger, but Christian is determined to follow his fortunes wherever they may lead. He quickly finds himself entangled in the machinations of several ruthless courtiers, and before long he comes to the attention of the Emperor himself. Rudolf, deciding that Christian is that rare thing--a person he can trust--sets him the task of solving the mystery of the woman's murder."--

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Large Print	Pop-Up Library Large print Fiction	Fiction	BLAC (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		A00761316

"A novel"--Cover.

"Christian Stern, an ambitious young scholar and alchemist, arrives in Prague in the bitter winter of 1599, intent on making his fortune at the court of the Holy Roman Emperor, the eccentric Rudolf II. The night of his arrival, drunk and lost, Christian stumbles upon the body of a young woman in Golden Lane, an alley hard by Rudolf's great castle. Dressed in a velvet gown, wearing a large gold medallion around her neck, the woman is clearly well-born--or was, for her throat has been slashed. A lesser man would smell danger, but Christian is determined to follow his fortunes wherever they may lead. He quickly finds himself entangled in the machinations of several ruthless courtiers, and before long he comes to the attention of the Emperor himself. Rudolf, deciding that Christian is that rare thing--a person he can trust--sets him the task of solving the mystery of the woman's murder."--

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