Joan and Matthew Stock Mystery by Leonard Tourney (1-8)
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Overview: Leonard Tourney came to BYU in 2006 after teaching at Western Illinois University, the University of Tulsa, and the University of California at Santa Barbara. A specialist in composition pedagogy and creative writing, Professor Tourney has authored scholarly articles in l7th century British literature, a critical biography of Joseph Hall, short fiction, and nine historical novels, the most recent a fictional memoir of William Shakespeare.
Leonard Tourney’s historical mystery series features Matthew Stock, 17th century town constable and clothier in Chelmsford, England, along with his wife and partner in crime-solving, Joan, whom he encounters on his first documented case in The Player’s Boy Is Dead.
Genre: Fiction > Mystery/Thriller
1. The Player’s Boy Is Dead (1980)
They were a small player’s troupe, come to perform for a lord and his lady…
And none of the rag-tag group shone more than the young players’ boy, with his flaxen hair and fine features. Indeed, he had won a scullery maid’s heart, and it was she, at cock’s crow, who went searching for him in the stables where he slept. But, alas, she found him dead—murdered in a most gruesome way. And now Constable Matthew Stock must search high and low, from a Lord’s castle to a disreputable inn, to find the person who dealt such an ungodly blow…
2. Low Treason (1983)
The wealthy jeweler to the nobility plots to betray the crown to Spain.
Matthew Stock’s young relation, Thomas, leaves home to apprentice himself to Castell, a jeweler in London. Then he disappears. Castell writes to say Thomas has gone to sea, but Stock decides he must investigate: such a move is unlike the boy, indeed. While Stock is away, Thomas returns and tells Matthew’s wife Joan how the jeweler is trying to have him killed. He has discovered that Castell is blackmailing high-ranking members of Elizabeth’s court. Joan must rush to London to warn her husband. For Matthew has no idea of the danger he is in, asking the ruthless Castell about Thomas…
3. Familiar Spirits (1984)
Three innocents stand accused of sorcery and soon no one is safe…
The town of Chelmsford was going mad with the frenzy of witch hunting. Neighbors accused one another with no cause, hysterical at the sudden death of a townsman and sightings of an apparition of a dead young woman. But Constable Matthew Stock would have none of it. Sensible, down to earth, and aided by the quiet intelligence of his good wife Joan, he doubted the accusers, but was helpless to save the accused. As the village became inflamed with terror, Matthew cleverly began to piece together a deceptively simple tale of innocence and guilt, heaven and hell, to reveal the long-hidden secrets behind the strange bewitchings…
4. The Bartholomew Fair Murders (1986)
Elizabeth the Great will go to the fair…
And a wondrous fair it is, drawing people from all over the land, among them the goodly couple, the Stocks. But their initial pleasure in the hurly-burly is tempered by the murder of a puppeteer on the road to the fairgrounds. An odd murder indeed, for the killer has left strange marks on the dead man’s forehead…
5. Old Saxon Blood (1988)
You will seek the answers, not," said the Queen, "as open officers but as lawful spies."
Matthew Stock, clothier of Chelmsford, Essex (and sometimes constable and on several occasions most successful sleuth), and his able wife Joan had been sent a royal summons by Queen Elizabeth herself. The Queen had sent for them to find out, if possible, who or what had caused the death some twelve months ago of Sir John Challoner, the father of Elizabeth’s favorite Maid of Honor, Mistress Frances Challoner.
6. Knaves Templar (1991)
One by one, law students in the Inns of Court are killing themselves — or so it seems to all but County Constable Matthew Stock. Matthew knows a murder when he sees it, and soon he’s in pursuit of a ghostly killer who is not above trying his skills on Matthew himself. Meanwhile, Matthew’s wife, Joan, follows her nose through the brawling, bawdy streets of Elizabethan London, looking for clues to help her husband outwit his murderous nemesis. But who will help her?
7. Witness of Bones (1992)
As Queen Elizabeth lays dying, there is a plot afoot to unseat her principle advisor, Sir Robert Cecil . Merchant-constable Matthew Stock’s considers Sir Robert his master, and, determined to help his lord in any way, Matthew is lured to a murder scene–and the bloody knife next to the body turns out to be his own. Only the industrious and clever Joan Stock, Matthew’s steadfast wife, is a liberty to save his neck from the gallows, that is until the plotters turn toward her–aiming to rid themselves of the one body who stands in their way….
8. Frobisher’s Savage (1994)
In their eighth case, Elizabethan sleuths Joan and Matthew Stock investigate a murder in which an Eskimo, brought to England in 1576 by Sir Martin Frobisher, becomes a suspect because of blind prejudice, in a mystery based on factual events.
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