Gorbun Lord Cromwell

1537, England. In full swing is the systematic destruction of monasteries, declared by the seedlings of vice and treason. However, the events in the monastery of the small town of Scarns are by no means developing according to the scenario written by the chief ruler Thomas Cromwell. His emissary is brutally killed, the headless body was found in a pool of blood near the desecrated altar. Who did it? Sorcerers, adherents of black magic? Or smugglers? Or the monks themselves? To investigate the atrocity is entrusted to Matthew Chardley, a hunchback, whose mind is able to unravel the most difficult crimes. Arriving at the monastery, he discovers that this murder is not the first committed within the walls of the monastery ...
In the world of literary heroes and in the minds of today"s reader, the image of Matthew Chardlack occupies an honorable place in a row with such famous characters as Sherlock Holmes, Erkul Poirot, Niro Wulf and commissar Megre