Apothecary Melchior and the Ghost of Rataskaevu Street (Apothecary Melchior 2)

Tallinn, 1419. What Links The Keeper Of The Tower, A Prostitute And A Flemish Painter To A Haunted House On Rataskaevu Street? All Three Claim To Have Seen A Ghost Near The House, And Each Is Found Dead Soon Afterwards. Melchior Wakenstede, Apothecary And Assistant Bailiff, Is Charged With Unearthing The Truth. With A Cultivated Sense For Justice, Melchior Investigates The Deaths And Attempts To Find Out Whether, As The Denizens Of Medieval Tallinn Believe, Ghosts Can Reap Their Revenge Upon The Living. When A Powerful Merchant Dies, Melchior Perceives A Corporeal Connection Between This And The Other Deaths. As Melchior Becomes Embroiled In The Conflicts And Rivalries Between Religious Orders, Merchant Guilds And Teutonic Knights, All Vying With One Another For Control Of The Town, What He Discovers Is More Incredible And More Terrible Than Any Ghost. Indrek Hargla ; Translated From The Estonian By Christopher Moseley. 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.