Rory Clements - Corpus

1936. Europe is boiling. The Nazis entered the Rhineland. In Russia, Stalin began the "Great Purge". Civil war broke out in Spain.

A young English woman, terrified of the Gestapo, takes false documents to Berlin for a Jewish scientist. He is soon found dead in his room in Cambridge, with his silver syringe between his limp fingers.
A conspiracy is hatched in an exclusive London club that threatens the British King and the legitimate government. When a famous and noble English couple with fascist sentiments is brutally murdered, Thomas Wilde, a self-styled Cambridge history professor, encounters the world of spies and secret agents that he had only known from books. The more he immerses himself in the whirlwind of events, the more connections he finds between the death of the girl with the silver syringe and VIII. Amidst the scandal that broke out around King Eduard at that time.

"- Argue with me!" insisted Wilde. "Demand evidence, get me to prove my point, and get as close to the truth as you can! Re-examine everything you've heard and form your own opinion based on the evidence you find." based on! And if they don't find evidence, then stay open to possibilities! Be like detectives, or you'll never become a good historian."