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Delve into the spying world of 17th Century man about town, Thomas Chaloner

The final instalment of the popular medieval chronicles featuring fourteenth- century Cambridge physician Matthew Bartholomew

Thomas Chaloner, the 17th century spy, solves a dastardly new case

Chaloner faces a barrage of problems in the latest case for the 17th-century spy

Medieval physician Matthew Bartholomew returns for his latest case amongst rumours of war

For the twentieth anniversary of the start of the Matthew Bartholomew series, Sphere is delighted to reissue all of the medieval monk's cases with beautiful new series-style covers.

Physician Matthew Bartholomew battles more medieval crime in the latest in the much-praised series

The medieval sleuth and physician Matthew Bartholomew foils another dastardly plot

In another historical adventure from Susanna Gregory, Chaloner the spy investigates a murder in a plague-ravaged 17th century London The plague raging through London in 1665 has emptied the city. The only people left are those too poor to flee, or those who selflessly struggle to control the contagion and safeguard the capital's future. Amongst them, though, are those prepared to risk their health for money - those who sell dubious 'cures' and hawk food at wildly inflated prices. Also amongst them are those who hold in their hands the future of the city's most iconic building - St Paul's Cathedral. The handsome edifice is crumbling from decades of neglect and indecision, giving the current custodians a stark choice - repair or demolish. Both sides have fanatical adherents who have been fighting each other since the Civil Wars. Large sums of money have disappeared, major players have mysteriously vanished, and then a unidentified skeleton is discovered in another man's grave. A reluctant Chaloner returns to London to investigate, only to discover that someone is determined to thwart him by any means - by bullet, poison or bludgeon - and he fears he has very little time to identify the culprits before he becomes yet another victim in the battle for the Cathedral's future.

Trouble is afoot again in medieval Cambridge - Matthew Bartholomew has reached his twentieth case.