Prague nights / Benjamin Black.
Publication details: London : Viking, 2017.Description: 330 pages ; 24 cmISBN:- 0241197376
- 9780241197370
- 9780241297858
- 0241297850
- 1500-1599
- Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction
- Emperors -- Fiction
- Murder -- Investigation -- Czech Republic -- Prague -- 16th century -- Fiction
- Physicians -- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Detective and mystery stories
- Czech Republic -- Prague
- Prague (Czech Republic) -- History -- 16th century -- Fiction
- Mystery fiction
- Historical fiction
- Mystery fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- Suspense fiction.
- Fiction.
- History.
- Irish fiction -- In English -- 21st century
- Historical fiction
- Detective and mystery fiction
- Historical fiction.
- Detective and mystery fiction.
- Crime-Historical -- Adult fiction -- Print
- 823.92 23
- PR6052.A57 P73 2017
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction - Crime | BLA | Available | 066567 |
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The emperor's mistress had been murdered, and the world had been taken hold of and turned upon its head' Prague, 1599. Christian Stern, a young doctor, has just arrived in the city. On his first evening, he finds a young woman's body half-buried in the snow. The dead woman is none other than the emperor's mistress, and there's no shortage of suspects. Stern is employed by the emperor himself to investigate the murder. In the search to find the culprit, Stern finds himself drawn into the shadowy world of the emperor's court - unspoken affairs, letters written in code, and bitter rivalries. But there's no turning back now...