Ex Libris

by RossKing (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  2003

  $7.07

  Responding to a cryptic summons to a remote country house, London bookseller Isaac Inchbold finds himself responsible for restoring a magnificent library pillaged during the English Civil War, and in the process slipping from the surface of 1660s London into an underworld of spies and smugglers, ciphers and forgeries. As he assembles the fragments of a complex historical mystery, Inchbold learns how Sir Ambrose Plessington, founder of the library, escaped from Bohemia on the eve of the Thirty Years War with plunder from the Imperial Library. Inchbold's hunt for one of these stolen volumes - a lost Hermetic text - soon casts him into an elaborate intrigue; his fortunes hang on the discovery of the missing manuscript but his search reveals that the elusive volume is not what it seems and that he has been made an unwitting player in a treacherous game.

• Used

  Paperback
  1999

  $3.28

  A cryptic summons from Lady Marchamont launches a London bookseller on an odyssey through the back alleys and secret corridors of 17th-century Europe. Isaac Inchbold finds himself slipping into an underworld of spies, smugglers, traitors, alchemists and mad priests, and so begins a scholarly game.

• Used

  Hardcover
  1998

  $5.93

  A novel of murder, love and espionage. A cryptic summons from Lady Marchamont launches a London bookseller on an odyssey through the back alleys and secret corridors of 17th-century Europe. So begins a scholarly game where the forces are anonymous, motives inexplicable, but the outcome deadly.

• New

  Paperback
  2002

  $21.83