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    Apothecary Melchior and the Ghost of Rataskaevu Street

    By Indrek Hargla

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    Tallinn, Estonia, 1419. What links a prostitute, a Flemish painter and a tower watchman to a haunted house on Rataskaevu Street? All three claim to have seen a ghost near the house, and each of the three is found dead soon after.

    Melchior Wakenstede, apothecary and assistant bailiff, is charged with unearthing the truth behind these seemingly supernatural murders. Is this, as some townspeople believe, the work of vengeful ghosts? of Satan himself? But when a pious and powerful old merchant dies, along with a castrated and disfigured tramp, Melchior perceives a more corporeal connection between the deaths.

    Melchior must rise above the competing interests of merchant guilds, religious orders and Teutonic knights, to get to the bottom of the mystery

    Apothecary Melchior and the Ghost of Rataskaevu Street is the latest English language translation of the Apothecary Melchior medieval mystery series that is the talk of Europe. Indrek Hargla is the Bernard Cornwell, Elis Peters and C. J. Sansom of the continent, and in his apothecary Melchior he has created a character to rival Brother Cadfael.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPeter Owen Publishers
    Release dateApr 1, 2017
    ISBN9780720618907
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    Apothecary Melchior and the Ghost of Rataskaevu Street
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    Indrek Hargla

    INDREK HARGLA was born in 1970. One of the bestselling Estonian authors working today, his Apothecary Melchior novels now run to six widely translated volumes, and film versions are currently in production. Apothecary Melchior and the Mystery of St Olaf's Church is the first of two volumes in the series to be published in English by Peter Owen Publishers.

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