Among the suspects are the villagers, Bennet’s fellows at Tintagel, and hostile pagans living nearby. While Crispin investigates the murder, Jack helps Teague search for the sword, and Kat, always interested in items of value, seduces Crispin, who should know better.
The castle is barely guarded, and Bennet had a reputation as a womanizer who had earned the enmity of many a maiden. The castle constable asks Crispin to find Roger Bennet’s killer. On their first visit, Teague moves the heavy stone over the hole where he stores some of his treasures only to find the body of a man at arms. Crispin also meets the scholarly Marzhin Gwyls, a caretaker at Tintagel Castle, a crumpled ruin guarded by a few men at arms and a constable. A group of traveling players they encounter includes Kat Pyke, a former lover, burglar, and swindler who’s bested Crispin in the past. Since Crispin, a disgraced but honorable former knight, refuses to participate in illegal treasure hunting, it’s fortunate that Teague has an old letter from King Edward III allowing him to search for treasure. Although neither is convinced the sword exists, they leave immediately on the long trip to Treknow, the closest village to Tintagel. In 1396, a famous tracker of men and objects leaves London for the wilds of Cornwall in search of a fabulous treasure.Ĭrispin Guest and his apprentice, Jack Tucker ( Traitor’s Codex, 2019, etc.), meet by chance with Carantok Teague, a Cornishman who offers them a large sum to help him track down the mythical Excalibur.
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