This is the inn on the Ungelt court haunted by the Turk with the sack in which he carries the head of his beloved — whom HE beheaded at her wedding to another man!

There is an inn on the Ungelt courtyard behind Our Lady of Tyn church. One guest of the in was a handsome Turk who stayed some while in Prague. He and the innkeeper’s daughter fell in love but the Turk had to leave the city for a short time and promised to return and wed the girl. Alas, many months and then years began to slip past and the innkeeper insisted his daughter marry a local boy.

During the wedding feast, the Turk returned to the inn. In his fury at the girl’s betrayal, he pulled out his scimitar and beheaded her. Now his ghost stalks the courtyard at night. Those who meet him report that he is holding a blood-soaked burlap sack which he opens to show them the head of his beloved!

This tale will certainly become a part of this novel. In addition… there will be other Ottoman Turks, an evil djinn, and Prague’s role in providing the Muslim empire with castrated male slaves will appear in Irons in the Fire!