Is the young man merely drunk or does his tottering walk suggest something more sinister? When he collapses in front of two sisters on that dark, wet night, they guess rightly that he's been murdered by poisoning. So begins this tale set in the town of Banff, Scotland in the 1620s.
Alexander Seaton Série
Tato série se odehrává ve Skotsku na počátku 17. století. Sleduje život a osudy vzdělaného, ale chudého učitele, který se potýká s výzvami své doby. Vyprávění je prodchnuto historickými detaily a zkoumá osobní dilemata a společenské poměry v drsném prostředí severního pobřeží.




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