Hugh Corbett Returns
In 1300, an English privateer named 'The Wax-Men' was trapped and
overrun by two powerful war cogs flying the streamers of the powerful
Hanseatic League of North Germany. The ship was carrying a casket
containing the 'Carta Mysteriosa', a collection of valuable and detailed
maps and sea charts. The rulers of Europe, not to mention their merchant
princes, would wade through a sea of blood to obtain them.
Three years later Wilhelm Von Paulents, a representative of the Hanseatic
League, comes to England. Rumours have it that he owns the sea charts
and Sir Hugh Corbett is sent to negotiate with Von Paulents. But the
German visitors fall ill of some mysterious ailment and the manor
of Maubisson, which has been set aside for them, is cordoned off in
accordance with city health regulations.
Then, on the morning of the fourth Sunday in Advent, Corbett is summoned
to a scene of bloody mayhem and murder: Von Paulents, his wife, son
and clerk have been barbarously assassinated. The 'Carta Mysteriosa'
have not been stolen. So why were the murders committed and by whom?
Corbett investigates and, once again, he enters the world of shadows
to confront the Seed of Cain.
