Yashim Togalu mysteries

As the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire tries to make changes to stay in step with a modernizing Europe, a wave of murders threatens the fragile balance of power in his court. Only intelligence agent Yashim Togalu can be trusted to find out who's behind the murders. Yashim, a eunuch, is able to go where others can not. He also introduces readers to the Janissaries, the empire's elite soldiers, whom the Sultan had crushed ten years before. Could they be...

Istanbul, 1840: the young sultan Abdulmecid believes that Gentile Bellini's vanished masterpiece, a portrait of Mehmet the Conqueror, may have resurfaced in Venice. But it's not Yashim, our eunuch detective, who takes a ship across the Mediterranean. Instead, it's his Polish ambassador friend, Palewski, disguised as an American art dealer.

"Join Investigator Yashim for a final exotic escapade in this rich Edgar Award-winning series In four previous novels, Jason Goodwin's Inspector Yashim, the eunuch detective, has led us through stylish, suspenseful, and colorful mysteries in the Istanbul of the Ottoman Empire. Now, in The Baklava Club, Yashim returns for his final adventure--and his most thrilling yet. Three naive Italian liberals, exiled in Istanbul, have bungled their instructions...