Alderman John Foster wishes to give his home city of Bristol a gift of almshouses, together with a chapel dedicated to The Three Kings of Cologne. To this end, he purchases a piece of land from the Magdalen Nunnery, but when this is cleared and dug over, the murdered body of a young woman is unearthed. This is later identified as the remains of Isabella Linkinhorne, who disappeared twenty years earlier. It was known at the time that she had three secret lovers. John Foster employs Roger the Chapman to discover the identity of these men, and to find out which one of them killed Isabella. Faced with the almost impossible task of tracking down three people of whom he knows next to nothing, Roger nicknames them Caspar, Balthazar and Melchior after the Magi - the Three Kings of Cologne...
- ISBN10 0727864815
- ISBN13 9780727864819
- Publish Date 7 December 2006
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 11 March 2010
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Severn House Publishers Ltd
- Edition World ed.
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 256
- Language English