An interesting story from the times of Wenceslas II, which takes you to a medieval prison with a mystery of an unexplained death.
James and William settled in Cornštejn Castle. Lady Anne agreed to the marriage of her daughter Eliška to William and appointed his friend Jakub as the Purgrave of Cornštejn Castle. Jakub develops a reputation as a consistent and uninfluenced investigator of violent crimes, and it is no different when the corpse of Mikuláš from Krnčice is found in the middle of the woods. James faces difficult decisions as he uncovers several motives whose clues lead to potential killers. Is the low thieving instinct of the leader of the local band of robbers to blame, the jealousy of the noble suitors of the wife of the murdered Nicholas, the greed and callousness of Mrs. Rosalie or... The plot builds up into an unexpected plot, into which all the cogs of the motif of the series of deaths eventually fit like clockwork.
An interesting story from the time of Wenceslas II, which takes you to a medieval prison with a mystery of an unsolved death, torture chambers with creative descriptions of the law of torture, medieval inns, reeking of long-ago inedible delicacies, the kitchen of the medieval castle of Cornštejn, of manorial chambers and ceremonial halls, dangerous forests, full of bandits and robbers. The story is an indirect sequel to The Murder of a Dishonest Virgin.