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FROBISHER’S SAVAGE and THE PLAYERS’ BOY IS DEAD (Endeavour – March 2016), two classic murder mystery releases in the Matthew Stock series by Leonard Tourney, are now available in ebook! Read more about these titles below:
FROBISHER’S SAVAGE – In 1576, Sir Martin Frobisher made the first of three voyages in search of a Northwest Passage. He got as far as Canada, and brought back to England two “proofs” that he had reached Cathay: some black stones that he claimed contained gold, and an Eskimo. Frobisher’s Eskimo is given the name “Adam Nemo” and is set down on the estate of a wealthy landowner as a servant. He learns the strange language of his captors, he performs his duties more than conscientiously, and he keeps to himself. And then everything changes.
Visiting his only friend on a nearby farm, a deaf and mute youth named Nicholas, he finds the boy cowering in a corner and everywhere signs of a bloody massacre. Merchant Matthew Stock and his forthright wife Joan are firmly convinced of the pair’s innocence, and they are determined that the rule of law shall prevail above the town’s growing hysteria fastened upon those they consider strangers – the “savage” and the “idiot.” FROBISHER’S SAVAGE takes Leonard Tourney’s Elizabethan mystery series to a higher level with a compelling story about the nature of blind prejudice.
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THE PLAYER’S BOY IS DEAD – Elizabethan England. A country that is growing rich and powerful. But, under the surface, there are matters savage and murderous, as well…
When a small players’ troupe come to perform for a lord and his lady, none of the rag-tag group shine more than the young players’ boy, with his flaxen hair and fine features. The player boy had won a scullery maid’s heart, and it was she, at cock’s crow, who went searching for him in the stables where he slept, left heart broken when she finds him gruesomely murdered. County Constable Matthew Stock, a humble clothier by trade, and his practical-minded wife Joan set about to get to the bottom of this horrendous crime. So impossible is the case that Matthew finds himself resenting the position of Constable, as every lead seems to be a dead end.
Between adulterous wives, less than holy priests and a brutally enforced political hierarchy, Constable Mathew has his work cut out for him if he is to keep his job and get justice for the murdered boy…
THE PLAYER’S BOY IS DEAD is a widely acclaimed mystery novel as rich in historical detail as it is in suspense.
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