Angel of Death - Hardcover

Doherty, P. C.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312037910 ISBN 13: 9780312037918

Publisher: St Martins Pr, 1990

Synopsis

When Walter de Montfort, dean of St. Paul's Cathedral, dies suddenly and violently during a mass at which King Edward I and other notables are present, medieval detective Hugh Corbett is assigned to track down the killer

About this title

About the Author:

Paul Doherty was born in Middlesbrough. He studied History at Liverpool and Oxford Universities and obtained a doctorate for his thesis on Edward II and Queen Isabella. He is now headmaster of a school in north-east London and lives with his family in Essex.

From Publishers Weekly:

Medieval London comes vividly to life in this fourth investigation by Hugh Corbett, chief clerk to England's Edward I. In January 1299, at High Mass with the king and other nobles, Walter de Montfort, the Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral, falls dead, poisoned. Edward, whose recent ill-received attempts to tax the church to raise funds for his wars against France and rebel Scots make him a suspect, orders Corbett to investigate. With the aid, and often hindrance, of his dissolute servant Ranulf, Corbett discovers that the victim owned a house of prostitution and served as the fence for a gang of outlaws. The clerk comes to suspect, however, that despite the Dean's criminal activities, he was not the intended victim. Finding the key to the mystery in the ritual of the mass, Corbett gets his answer after another murder, although he himself almost perishes. Like previous Corbett mysteries, this one is based on a true incident, with Doherty's depictions of medieval character and manners of thought, from the highest to the lowest in the land, ringing true.
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About this edition

• Publisher: St Martins Pr
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0312037910
• ISBN 13: 9780312037918
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 159