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A haunting on F staircase in St. Thomas's College, Cambridge bitterly divides the college, and the Cambridge branch of the Psychic Investigation Unit (PIU) is invited to carry out an experiment. The main opponent of the plan, Professor Hawkridge, insists on being present when for the nocturnal investigation by the 'ghostbusters', only to drop dead of a heart attack. Now the college is really in trouble. The press has a field day, Hawkridge's widow threatens to sue, and St. Thomas's is swamped with tourists who want to sleep in the 'haunted' room.' Sir Joseph Zuylestein, the College Master, asks Dr. Nathaniel Gye, a parapsychologist, if he can make some discreet enquiries with a view to closing the whole sorry business — the affair could not have come at a worse time, as St.



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Derek Wilson

DEREK WILSON is one of Britain's leading popular historians whose books enjoy worldwide acclaim. Derek has published (at the latest count) 64 books in both factual and fictional formats. He specializes in the Tudor period, although his subject coverage is wider (currently Charlemagne - A Biography is proving particularly popular in the USA) . For a complete list of available titles please visit his website, www.derekwilson.com.
His most recent books are:
FICTION (D.K. WILSON)
The Thomas Treviot series of Tudor crime thrillers based on real-life mysteries from the archives. 'historical fiction at its best', Alison Weir.
The First Horseman - 'a resounding success', thebookbag.co.uk
The Traitor's Mark - 'exciting and brilliantly researched thriller', the Good Book Guide
The Devil's Chalice - 'Wilson's narrative is both gripping and insightful', History of Royals
NON FICTION
The English Reformation - 'stimulating and authoritative', Dr John Guy
Henry VIII - Reformer and Tyrant - 'masterful biography', Choice Magazine
Mrs Luther and Her Sisters - Women in the Reformation - 'a timely and absorbing study', Jessie Childs

a leading historian of the Tudor period whose acclaimed works include: 'Henry VIII: Reformer and Tyrant', 'The English Reformation: How England was transformed by the Tudors', 'After the Storm: The Life and Legacy of Martin Luther', 'Uncrowned Kings of England: The Black Legend of the Dudleys' and biographies of Thomas Walsingham, the Earl of Leicester, Hans Holbein and Thomas More. He is currently working on 'Mrs Luther's Sisters: What Women did for the Reformation and the Reformation did for Women'.

His current fiction writing, under the name D.K. Wilson, is a series of mid-Tudor whodunits, 'The First Horseman' and 'The Traitor's Mark', featuring London goldsmith Thomas Treviot.



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