Is the sheriff’s motivation for violence justified?Ħ. What would you like to know about Jack Tucker?ĥ. How did it affect his relationships with Phillipa? With Jack? With Eleanor and Gilbert?Ĥ. Class structure is an important aspect of Crispin’s character. When you look back over the story, what were the significant clues that you missed the first time? And what did you think of the twists?ģ. There were many small clues dotting the plot. How do you think the London setting informs the story?Ģ. * denotes fictional people QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSIONġ. Lionel and Maude Walcote, brother and sister-in-law to Nicholas Walcote*Ĭlarence Walcote, brother to Lionel and Nicholas Walcote* Martin and Alice Kemp, the tinker and his wife* Gilbert and Eleanor Langton, owners of the Boar’s Tusk tavern*Īdam Becton, steward to the Walcote household* Now Crispin has come to the unwanted attention of the Lord Sheriff of London and finds himself in the middle of a complex plot involving dark secrets, international intrigue, and a missing religious relic-one that lies at the very heart of this heinous and impossible crime. But when he comes to inform his client, he finds the merchant dead in a sealed room, locked from the inside. In dire need of money, Crispin reluctantly agrees and discovers that the wife is indeed up to something. Acting as the “Tracker”, a personal sheriff, Crispin is called to the compound of a successful but reclusive cloth merchant who suspects his wife of infidelity and wants Crispin to look into the matter.
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