Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine. Vol. 135, No. 2. Whole No. 822, February 2010

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Peter Tremayne is one of the fiction-writing pseudonyms of renowned Celtic scholar Peter Berresford Ellis. Most of the stories that have appeared in this magazine under the Tremayne byline belong to his series set in ancient Ireland, featuring Sister Fidelma, a religieuse who is also an advocate in the legal system of the time. The two most recent stories we’ve received from the author, including this one, are set instead in Elizabethan England and star Master Drew Hardy, a constable of the watch.

A wailing March wind was blowing from the northwest along Bankside, causing the Thames to move in choppy wavelets and froth an angry white around its quays and the massive piles of the great London Bridge. Wisps of thatch were being blown hither and thither among the debris of the streets, plucked from the houses and even from the roof of the stately Globe Theatre. The wind howled down Pepper Street, causing the painted wooden sign of the Pilgrim’s Wink Tavern to rattle and shake in spite of its iron fastening.

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