Пол Догерти - циклы произведений

Вернувшийся после великих сражений к жене Хатшепсут и к своему верному народу Тутмос 11 стоит перед статуей Амона-Ра и слышит восторженный рев толпы, звуки фанфар... Фивы ликуют, празднуя победу. Однако возвращение фараона окрашивается кровью дьявольских предзнаменований. Не проходит и часа, как он умирает... Вместе с мудрейшим судьей Амеротком, расследующим загадочное убийство Тутмоса II, читателям предстоит раскрыть великую тайну прошлого и стать свидетелями восхождения на престол легендарной женщины-фараона, прославленной царицы Древнего Египта Хатшепсут...

Этот живой и завораживающий роман словно дышит историей. Отправляйтесь в Крестовый поход к стенам Иерусалима на поиски священных реликвий вместе с основателями ордена тамплиеров Готфридом де Сен-Омером и Гуго де Пейеном. Вы узнаете о том, как в боях и лишениях создавалось самое знаменитое и загадочное тайное братство в истории.

Начало XII века. Иерусалим захлестнула череда жутких убийств. В числе жертв высокопоставленные особы, ритуально умерщвленные женщины и тамплиеры. Молодой рыцарь Храма Эдмунд де Пейен просто обязан узнать правду, ведь подозрение падает на его побратима и возлюбленную... А что, если угроза исходит из самого ордена?

Англия XIII век. Заклятый враг короля Эдуарда I, Симон де Монфор, убит, его последователи казнены, однако в Лондоне по-прежнему не спокойно, словно здесь затевается что-то недоброе. Но неужели тени убитых могут вернуться, чтобы отомстить за себя? Что это за странная секта, называющая себя "Пентаграммой"? Что за труп найден в центре Сент-Мери-Ле-Боу, и верно ли, что в ее древней крипте отправляются сатанинские обряды? Хью Корбет, чиновник Королевской канцелярии, еще не знает, на какой страшный путь он ступил, оправившись искать ответы на вопросы своего государя.

В своем очередном историческом романе, выдержанном в жанре "средневекового триллера", современный британский мастер детектива Пол Доуэрти обращается к одной из не разрешенных по сей день загадок. XIII век, Великобритания, уходящий в прошлое конфликт английского и шотландского королевства. На этот раз проницательному Хью Корбетту, посланнику английского лорд-канцлера Бенстенда, предстоит расследовать таинственную смерть шотландского короля Александра...

Иногда мы забываем, что шпионаж, двойные агенты в высших эшелонах власти - примета вовсе не только нашего времени, что тайная борьба за государственные секреты существует столько же, сколько сама государственная власть. Известный современный британский мастер детектива Пол Доуэрти в своем очередном историческом триллере обращается к одному из средневековых "шпионский скандалов", действительно разразившемуся между Англией и Францией, и строит собственную...

Пол Доуэрти, известный британский мастер детективного жанра, известен, в частности, как автор "средневековых триллеров". К ним относится и роман "Ангел смерти" - очередная остросюжетная история о приключениях проницательного Хью Корбетта и его слуги Ранульфа.
...В январе 1299 года, во время торжественной мессы в соборе святого Павла, на глазах у короля Эдуарда I и придворных падает замертво дьякон собора, Уолтер де Монфор. Позже выясняется - священнослужителя отравили. Отношения Монфо-ра и короля были, мягко говоря, не безоблачны, так что на Эдуарда ложится тягостное подозрение в убийстве священника, позорящее его в глазах всего христианского мира. Корбетт, которому, как водится, поручено расследовать преступление и найти убийцу, в конце концов узнает, что соборный дьякон был совсем не тем, за кого себя выдавал, а тем временем тайные убийцы подбираются к самому Хью...

It is 1301 and a fragile peace exists between Edward of England and Philip IV of France. In the fetid alleys and slums of London and Paris it is a different matter. Here the secret agents of both countries still fight their own, silent, deadly battles. The Prince of Wales wallows in luxury under the sinister influence of his favourite, Gaveston, who has secret political ambitions to dominate the young prince and the English crown. These scandals are threatened with exposure when Lady Belmont, the prince's former mistress, is found dead, her neck broken, at the foot of a nunnery's steps. Was it suicide? An accident? Or malicious murder? Edward turns to his master spy, Hugh Corbett, to solve the mystery. In doing so, Corbett must face the deadly rivalry of his French counterpart, the murderous rage of Gaveston and the silent threats of assassins. He must also contend with the lies and silken deceits of his own master.

In early 1302 a violent serial killer lurks in the city of London, slitting the throats of prostitutes.And when Lady Somerville, one of the Sisters of St Martha, is murdered in the same barbaric fashion, her death is closely followed by that of Father Benedict in suspicious circumstances. Edward of England turns to his trusted master clerk, Hugh Corbett, to reveal the identity of the bloodthirsty assassin. Joining Corbett on his mission are his devious manservant Ranulf and his faithful horseman Maltote. In the dark, fetid streets of the city and in the desolate abbey grounds, they encounter danger and deceit at every turn. Only Ragwort, the mad beggar, has seen the killer strike, and the one clue that Corbett has to help him is Lady Somerville's cryptic message: 'Calcullus non facit monachum ' - the cowl does not make the monk.

In the summer of 1302 the famous Robin of Locksley, popularly known as Robin Hood, has gone back to his outlaw ways in Sherwood Forest where he battles against royal authority, culminating in the barborous massacre of royal tax collectors and the mysterious murder of Sir Eustace Vechey, one of the sheriffs of Nottingham. Corbett and his two faithful servants Ranulf and Maltote are sent to Nottingham where they find fresh mysteries: why are three arrows shot into the air above Nottingham Castle on the 13th of every month? Who is the traitor in Nottingham Castle? And why have the French despatched an agent to assassinate Corbett?

November 1302, and Sir Hugh Corbett, Edward I's Keeper of the Secret Seal, together with his manservant, Ranulf, and messenger, Maltote, are sent to Mortlake Manor on the Norfolk coast to confront an evil rarely seen before. A man's headless corpse, its head impaled on a pole, has been found on a beach and the pretty young wife of a local baker is discovered hanging from a gallows. The scene is set for more gruesome deaths and Corbett soon realises that the icy wastes of Norfolk, where the eerie song of the Dark Angel wind chills those that live in the small villages along the coast, are just as treacherous as the silken intrigue at the royal court or the violence of London's fetid alleyways...

As King Edward I arrives in York for a secret meeting with the leaders of the military Order of the Temple, an attempt is made on his life. The would-be assassin is later found dead, engulfed by a mysterious fire and wearing the Templar Order livery. Hugh Corbett is called on to investigate.

The golden summer of 1303 and Oxford is plunged into chaos. The severed heads of beggars have been tied by their hair to the trees in woods outside the city. John Copsale, the Regent of Sparrow Hall, has been found dead in his bed and it is being whispered that he was murdered by the mysterious 'Bell Man'. Then the college librarian and activist, Robert Ascham is discovered with a crossbow bolt in his chest. King Edward, hearing of the seething unrest in Oxford, arrives unannounced at Sir Hugh Corbett's country manor, and insists that Corbett go to the city to solve the murderous mysteries. And when the King commands, few can resist even if it means knowingly entering a dangerous and violent world...

The death of Lord Henry Fitzalan on the feast of St. Matthew 1303 is a matter widely reported but little mourned. Infamous for his lecherous tendencies, his midnight trysts with a coven of witches and his boundless self-interest, he was a man of few friends. So when Hugh Corbett is asked to bring his murderer to justice it is not a matter of finding a suspect but of choosing between them. Immediate suspicion falls on Lord Henry's chief verderer, Robert Verlian. His daughter had been the focus of Lord Henry's roving eye in the weeks before his death and he was not a man to take no for an answer. But the culprit could just as easily be Sir William, the dead man's younger brother. It is no secret that Sir William covets the Fitzalan estate - but would he kill to inherit it? The possibilities are endless, but the truth is more terrible than anyone could have imagined.

In the village of Melford, a local lord is executed for a spate of vicious murders. It's not until the killing begins again, and the dead lord's son alleges that a miscarriage of justice has taken place, that a serious investigation begins. Hugh Corbett realises that for the last five years a serial killer has terrorised the villagers and that when, not if, the next victim is chosen, he must be ready to act.

The year is 1303, and the Benedictine monks of the abbey of St. Martin's-in-the-Marsh are accustomed to a comfortable existence within their sprawling, peaceful estate. But that begins to change when Abbot Stephen, a well-respected leader and a personal friend of King Edward I, is found brutally murdered in his chamber-with the door and windows locked from the inside. Soon Sir Hugh Corbett, Keeper of the King's Seal, arrives with his two henchmen to investigate. Rumors about the ghost of robber baron Sir Geoffrey Mandeville riding through the Lincolnshire fens with a retinue of ghastly horsemen have been circulating by way of explanation; Mandeville's ghost is also thought to be responsible for the corpse candles glowing in the dark, supposedly forewarning men of their own deaths. But Corbett disregards the tales, suspecting that someone much closer to home is responsible for the bloody acts. As the mysterious death toll mounts, Corbett sets about unearthing the dark secrets that the abbey and its inhabitants have been hiding for far too long.

Scholars conven at Corfe Castle, to crack the code of Roger Bacon’s Book of Secrets. When murder and mayhem ensue, Sir Hugh Corbett must thread through a maze of mystery while trying to unlock Bacon’s great secrets.

In 1300, an English privateer named The Waxman was trapped and overrun by two powerful war cogs flying the streamers of the powerful Hanseatic League of North Germany. The ship was carrying a casket containing the Carta Mysteriosa, a collection of valuable and detailed maps and sea charts. The rulers of Europe, not to mention their merchant princes, would wade through a sea of blood to obtain them. Three years later Wilhelm Von Paulents, a representative of the Hanseatic League, comes to England. Rumours have it that he owns the sea charts and Sir Hugh Corbett is sent to negotiate with Von Paulents. But the German visitors fall ill of some mysterious ailment and then, on the morning of the fourth Sunday in Advent, Corbett is summoned to a scene of bloody mayhem and murder: Von Paulents, his wife, son and clerk have been barbarously assassinated. The Carta Mysteriosa 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 Seed of Cain.