Lawrence Duket, goldsmith, kills Ralph Crepyn, moneylender, and flees to London's St. Mary Le Bow for sanctuary. The next day Duket is found hanged inside the locked church, an apparent suicide. Bishop Burnell, Chancellor for King Edward I, assigns Corbett to investigate. Burnell fears that the antiroyal Populares party will join with practitioners of devil worship at this time, ``Christianity is only skin deep.'' Hugh Corbett is threatened and attacked...

Hugh Corbett, a clerk and spy in the court of Edward I, investigates the mysterious death of Lady Eleanor Belmont, former mistress of Prince Philip of Wales, a death which may destroy the delicate peace between England and France.

Hugh Corbett is asked to solve the murder of Lord Henry Fitzalan, who was not very well liked and which makes the suspects aplenty.

When Abbot Stephen, the head of St. Martin's-in-the-Marsh monastery, is found brutally murdered, Sir Hugh Corbett, Keeper of the King's Seal, is sent to investigate and to dispute rumors about a galloping robber's ghost.

England, 1303. Sir Hugh Corbett is summoned to a scene of bloody mayhem and murder: Wilhelm Von Paulents, a representative of the Hanseatic League, and his wife, son and a clerk have been barbarously assassinated. The "Carta Mysteriosa"--A collection of valuable and detailed maps and sea charts--have not been stolen. So why were the murders committed and by whom? Corbett investigates and, once again, he enters the world of shadows to confront the...

Investigating the February 1304 murder of the king's disgraced Chief Justice, Sir Hugh Corbett sifts through clues to determine if the culprit is a vengeance-seeking adversary of the victim or a copycat killer.