City of Masks, Sykes - B

                           We find Oswald de Lacy, Lord of Summerhill, in Venice. Accompanied by his mother, he is fleeing an England where his wife died in childbirth and where he has left behind his infant son. Their pilgrimage to the Holy Land has been delayed by war between Venice and Hungary. When his host's grandson is murdered, he is asked to investigate. He finds more than a killer as he unearths a spying ring working on behalf of the Hungarians. He succeeds in his investigation, begins to believe in the future again, resolves to return to his estate and his son, and marries a beautiful Venetian.