You will believe a sixth century Lord Chamberlain can fly. Well, kind of, enough to avoid breaking his neck. Or so we hoped when we wrote about John's daring escape from a tower overlooking the Golden Horn in Four For a Boy.

In When Byzantines Flew on the Poisoned Pen Press blog Mary writes about the historical events which inspired us to write the scene: on one hand, a Sultan, and on the other a crinoline.