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FIREDRAKE'S EYE
By Patricia Finney
New York: St. Martin's Press, (1992). First Book Club edition. Fine copy in wine-red linen over green boards with gilt embossed titles to the spine, red-and-green headband and tail-band, map illustrated end-papers; in a fine dust jacket with an illustration from a painting by Bryan Leister. The mad son of a prominent Catholic family stumbles upon evidence that his hated brother is spearheading a plot to assassinate Queen Elizabeth. Finney has successfully conjured up the filthy, crowded splendor of sixteenth-century England. PLEASE VIEW FOR MORE GREAT BOOKS THANKS! |