THIRTEEN CARD SPREAD

A MEDIEVAL MYSTERY


Lady Marian MacElpin is now an unofficial student
at the university in Paris: to be admitted to lectures
she has to pretend to be a man. But it is to her that
the other students turn when one is charged with
the murder of his rich uncle, a miser and reputed
alchemist. She quickly discovers that the murder
(and a second related murder) had their roots far
away on the island of Ibiza eighteen years before,
and involve not only alchemy and the tarot and (of
course, with Mariana there) witchcraft (one of the
witches, known as La Fille d'Or, turns out to have
been for years the secret mistress of Charles VI,
King of France), but also a one-armed
Albanian "king" of the Paris underworld, and such
well-known historical figures as Christine de Pisan
(then a girl of thirteen) and Nicolas Flamel, the
alchemist (later Grand Master of the outlawed
Prieuré de Sion).


MARIANA IN PARIS