In January 1343 the bells of Naples announce the dying of King Robert, and his granddaughter Joan inherits the throne at sixteen, married to the Hungarian prince Andrew. Dumas narrates the intrigues of her court, the plotting princes of the royal house, the strangling of Andrew at Aversa, and the vengeance and wars that followed her through a long, troubled reign.
One of Dumas’s Celebrated Crimes, real history told with a novelist’s relish for poison, passion and conspiracy. Download the free EPUB.