![]() ![]() ![]() Crispin knows the volume is dangerous but can’t bring himself to destroy it. Pardeu identifies the codex as the gospel of Judas, one of several rejected by the Council of Nicaea. His next stop is a goldsmith, who suggests he try the barber surgeon Peter Pardeu, a learned rabbi who’s stayed hidden in England since the expulsion of the Jews. The leather-bound book is obviously very old, but Crispin can’t read its language, so he and his longtime apprentice, Jack Tucker, who shares Crispin’s small house along with his wife and children, go to a book dealer who tells him it’s a papyrus written in Coptic. Sitting in his favorite tavern, he’s approached by a man who gives him a book and says that he’ll know what to do with it. Guest, disgraced knight and clever detective-a man lucky to escape with his life, though not his property or station, when he backed the Duke of Lancaster, in whose home he was raised, to become king over his nephew, the volatile Richard II-has been making ends meet by taking on any case that promises payment. Religion and politics prove to be a volatile combination for Crispin Guest. ![]()
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