The eighth and final part of the }House Of Niccolo{ historical fiction series. Dunnett's legion of devoted readers...would, I imagine, walk to the bookshop over broken glass to get it }Sunday Times{. I don't know how she does it Allan Massie The final appearance of Nicholas de Fleury, who started in the first of the Niccolo series as an 18-year-old apprentice. Now in his 30s, his flair for numbers means he could find a place almost anywhere in 15th century Europe. But first he has to return to Scotland where men wait to kill him.