Record Number |
738742 |
ISBN |
9780679777458 (paperback) |
Author |
Dunnett, Dorothy author. |
Title |
The disorderly knights / Dorothy Dunnett. |
Edition |
First Vintage Books edition. |
Publisher/Date |
New York : Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., 1997. |
©1994 |
Pagination etc. |
503 pages : map ; 21 cm. |
Series |
The Lymond chronicles 3 |
Contents note |
Originally published: London : Cassell & Company ; New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons,1966. |
Summary Note |
The third volume in "The Lymond Chronicles," the highly renowned series of historical novels by Dorothy Dunnett, Disorderly Knights takes place in 1551, when Francis Crawford of Lymond is dispatched to embattled Malta, to assist the Knights of Hospitallers in defending the island against the Turks. But shortly the swordsman and scholar discovers that the greatest threat to the Knights lies within their own ranks, where various factions vie secretly for master. |
Subject |
Crawford, Francis (Fictitious character) -- Fiction |
Soldiers of fortune -- Fiction |
Nobility -- Fiction |
Adventure stories |
-- History -- 16th century -- Fiction. |
Historical fiction. |
Shelf Location |
F DUNN |