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|title=Queen's Play

|author=Dorothy Dunnett

|date=December 1986

|isbn=0099489503

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Queen's Play is the second volume in Dorothy Dunnett's series about one Francis Crawford of Lymond. It's set in the sixteenth century; a time of political intrigue, religious reformation, intellectual debate and scientific discovery. The first book - The Game of Kings - introduced Lymond, second son of a (fictional) Scottish noble family inserted into the (real) events of the time. Lymond is highly intelligent, skilled in verse and music, but in diplomacy and warfare too. He declaims like a dream, he fights like a demon, and he is, of course, a man of honour. And of course too, he is a man of honour which is called into question. The Game of Kings sees him return to Scotland from exile in order to clear his name and save the child Queen Mary from a plot against her.