Death And The Merchant (Merchant Series)

Someone it seems has developed a taste for pastries-and I do not mean the sweet desserts for which our district has come to be known. The daughters of the merchants are dying. Panic has spread, and they are more than content to let their children be taken by this investigator from the mountains, for they think it to be a hemorrhagic fever from the south, and they are afraid of what might be brought into their doily parlors if vigil for the dead should be held in their homes. It is not a fever, as I am given to understand, though he burns them anyway, as is the mountain custom--Back cover

• | Author: C. H. Williams
• | Publisher: C.H. Williams Literary
• | Publication Date: Sep 21, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 512 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1733356916
• | ISBN-13: 9781733356916