Falconer and the Great Beast.

New York:: St Martin's Press, July, 1999.. 1st Printing.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: green binding; a Fine book, with a Fine dust jacket; publisher's price on the jacket flap is intact.. 8vo (8.5 inches tall) . Description: Dust jacket by Michael Storrings. This is the fifth novel in the Master William Falconer mystery series. ''Eastern horsemen rampage across the European mainland. These are the Tartars, and in 1268 they reach the end of a long ride. Now, having driven their pillage to the very ends of the earth, they cross the English Channel under a banner of peace. They claim to seek audience with the king. The people of Oxford, unwilling hosts to the Tartar delegation, greet their arriving guests with cold silence. Within hours, the tartar ambassador is dead. It appears someone murdered him, but how? Magic? Master William Falconer doesn't think so. On the case once again, this committed scientist knows a rational explanation lay behind the death, or he thinks he knows.''