Margaret Frazer

Introduction THE CHRONICLES OF CRIME This anthology is the first of a kind. It's the first to bring together a selection of stories featuring detectives from the entire history of the civilised world. Stories about historical detectives are relatively new, though they are not as new as some may...

CbapteR 1 11 in all it was a warm January, as Januarys went, this year of God's grace 1446, with never a freeze nor snow after Twelfth Night, even at St. Hilary's that was supposed to be a year's coldest day and now it was coming on to St. Paul's. The nights nipped and there were ice-rims to...