Prague nights / Benjamin Black.
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TextPublisher: [London] UK : Viking, 2017Description: 330 pages ; 21 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0241197376; 9780241197370; 9780241297858; 0241297850Subject(s): Rudolf, Holy Roman Emperor II, 1552-1612 | Rudolf, Holy Roman Emperor, 1552-1612 | Rudolf, Holy Roman Emperor II, 1552-1612 | Rudolf, Holy Roman Emperor II, 1552-1612 -- Fiction | 1500-1599 | Historical fiction | Detective and mystery stories | Mistresses -- Crimes against -- Fiction | Emperors -- Fiction | Murder -- Investigation -- Czech Republic -- Prague -- 16th century -- Fiction | Physicians -- Fiction | Courts and courtiers | Murder -- Investigation | Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction | Courts and courtiers -- Fiction | Czech Republic -- Prague | Prague (Czech Republic) -- History -- 16th century | Czech Republic -- Prague | Prague (Czech Republic) -- History -- 16th century -- FictionGenre/Form: Mystery fiction | Mystery fiction. | Historical fiction. | Suspense fiction. | Historical fiction | Detective and mystery fiction | Crime-Historical -- Adult fiction -- Print | Historical fiction. | Historical fiction | Detective and mystery fiction | Detective and mystery stories | Historical fiction. | Detective and mystery fiction. | Fiction. | History. | Irish fiction -- In English -- 21st century | Historical fiction. | Detective and mystery fiction. DDC classification: 823.92 LOC classification: PR6052.A57 | P73 2017Summary: 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...
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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...
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