One Head Too Many »

Tonkin is Head of English at the Wildernesse School, Sevenoaks.

A new investigation for Elizabethan sleuth Tom Musgrave. A mob playing football on London Bridge kick the ball over the Great Stone Gateway, where the heads of executed traitors are displayed, and it is the head of a woman that falls down the other side. As Tom puzzles over who this woman is, he uncovers the bridge's hive of ruthless businessmen, spies, and even ghosts.

Publishers Weekly

The grimmer aspects of Elizabethan London come alive in Peter Tonkin's (The Point of Death) latest in his Master of Defence series, One Head Too Many. After saving a pretty girl in peril from football hooligans near London Bridge, Tom Musgrave (aka the Master of Logic) stumbles on a severed female head-but the headless woman's body he shortly discovers down the Thames doesn't match.