Excellent Tudor mystery!
An Air of Treason: A Sir Robert Carey Mystery (Sir Robert Carey Series) by P F Chisholm Oxford, 1593, and courtier Sir Robert Carey, youngest son of The Lord Chamberlain, Baron Hunsdon, still has not received his warrant from his cousin (on the legitimate and the illegitimate sides) Queen Elizabeth. Queen Elizabeth is progressing to Oxford which is frantically crowded and preparing for her much anticipated visit. Carey is thinking of ways to present himself to the Queen, when she sends for him. When your Queen calls? What can you do but obey! When your Queen changes your plans and her promises what can you do but acquiesce. Elizabeth charges Carey with solving a thirty year old mystery--that of the death of the former wife of Dudley, the Earl of Leicester. Amy Dudley (nee Robsart) who appeared to have fallen down stairs to her death. Carey is by himself in Oxford. Dodd is still down south and Carey is forced to hire a new serving man, Hughie Tyndale. He's ...