Apothecary Melchior and the Ghost of Rataskaevu Street

Apothecary Melchior and the Ghost of Rataskaevu Street



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English | 2016 | ISBN: 0720618452 | 288 pages | EPUB | 1.4 MB

Tallinn, Estonia, 1419. What links a prostitute, a Flemish painter and a tower watchman to a haunted house on Rataskaevu Street? All three claim to have seen a ghost near the house, and each of the three is found dead soon after.

Melchior Wakenstede, apothecary and assistant bailiff, is charged with unearthing the truth behind these seemingly supernatural murders. Is this, as some townspeople believe, the work of vengeful ghosts? of Satan himself? But when a pious and powerful old merchant dies, along with a castrated and disfigured tramp, Melchior perceives a more corporeal connection between the deaths.