Four for a Boy - Softcover

Reed, Mary; Mayer, Eric

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0743486900 ISBN 13: 9780743486903

Publisher: Ibooks, 2004

Synopsis

Gang-plagued streets, politicians plotting each other's downfall, poverty and homelessness existing side-by-side with manifest wealth-no, this isn't modern day Washington D.C., but rather 6th-Century Constantinople. After a philanthropist is murdered in the city's Great Church, where he's gone too visit a controversial statue of Christ, John the Eunuch, Lord Chamberlin to Byzantine Emperor Justinian the First, is assigned to ferret out the killer and maybe also to act the role of a spy in a web of rivalries involving the current and future emperors.

About this title

About the Author

After 1999's highly acclaimed first full length novel, One for Sorrow, the husband and wife team of Mary Reed and Eric Mayer extended the series with Two For Joy, Three For A Letter, Four For A Boy, and Five for Silver. In June 2003 Booklist Magazine named the John the Eunuch novels one of its four Best Little Known Series.

The husband and wife team of Mary Reed and Eric Mayer had published several short John the Eunuch detections in mystery anthologies and in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine prior to 1999's highly acclaimed first full length novel, One for Sorrow.

Synopsis

In sixth-century Constantinople, John the Eunuch, Lord Chamberlain to the Byzantine emperor Justinian, is assigned to defend the empire by attempting the daring capture of a murderer responsible for the death of a philanthropist in the Great Church. Reprint.

Edition details

• Publisher: Ibooks
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0743486900
• ISBN 13: 9780743486903
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 328