Penman, Sharon Kay.

The queen's man : a medieval mystery / by Sharon Kay Penman. - New York : Henry Holt & Co., c1996. - 291 p. ; 22 cm.

Epiphany, 1193. Eleanor of Aquitaine sits upon England's throne. Her beloved son Richard Lionheart is missing, presumed dead - and the court whispers that her younger son, John, is plotting to seize the crown. Meanwhile, on the snowy highroad from Winchester, a destitute young man falls heir to a blood stained letter, pressed into his hand by a dying man. The missive becomes Justin de Quuincy's passport into the queen's confidence - and into the heart of danger, as he pursues a cunning murderer and jousts with secret traitors in Eleanor's court of intrigue and mystery.

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Eleanor, of Aquitaine, Queen, consort of Henry II, King of England, 1122?-1204 --Fiction.