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Synopsis
' I really like these medieval whodunnits.' - BOOKSELLER 'A romping good read.' - TIME OUT on the Prince Of Darkness In the summer of 1303, the severed heads of beggars are found tied by their hair to the trees outside the King's university city of Oxford. In the city itself all is not well at one of the colleges, Sparrow Hall; its Regent, John Copsale, has been found dead in his bed. Then the college librarian, Robert Ascham, is discovered with a crossbow bolt in his chest. And who is the mysterious Bell Man who posts treasonous letters on church doors? Hearing of the seething unrest in Oxford, King Edward commands Sir Hugh Corbett to resolve the murderous mysteries...
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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 Kirkus Reviews
It's 1303 and Edward, King of England, has asked his onetime courier and chief clerk Sir Hugh Corbett (Satan's Fire, 1996, etc.) for help with a series of disasters besetting the town of Oxford. The university's Sparrow Hall, founded by the late Sir Henry Braose and his sister Mathilda, has been the scene of several faculty murders--Regent Copsale; much-loved librarian Ascham; and his friend Passerel, found poisoned in a local church. Then there are the headless corpses, mostly of beggars, found in the woods outside town. Compounding it all are the proclamations, signed ``Bellman,'' nailed to church doors and elsewhere, that praise the glories of the King's dead enemy the Earl de Montfort. Sir Hugh reluctantly agrees to investigate and, with faithful servants Ranulf and Maltote, moves into Sparrow Hall, where Mathilda still resides with her deaf-mute servant Master Moth. The students are an unruly lot, largely Welsh, bearing no love for the King and given to debauchery, and possibly worse, in Oxford's woody outskirts. Meantime, the masters have their own secrets, and more of them will die before Sir Hugh unmasks the evil spirit behind the mayhem. Tenth in a series that grows denser and more convoluted with every episode. Tension ebbs and flows sporadically amid the churchly rites, rehashed battles, hooded figures ever lurking in dark corners, and repetitious accounts of the town's filthy lanes and seedy inhabitants. A tangled, torpid slog. -- Copyright ©1998, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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