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1284: Fearing that the Cheapside murder of Ralph Crepyn might be linked with a rebel group which practised the black arts, King Edward I ordered his wily Chancellor, Burnell, to look into the matter. Burnell chose a sharp and clever clerk from the Court of King's Bench named Hugh Corbett to conduct the investigation. Hugh - together with his manservant, Ranulf - was drawn into the tangled politics and dangerous underworld of medieval London before resolving the dark and violent truth.
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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.
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Building on an actual murder in 1284, Doherty (The Death of a King auspiciously begins a mystery series featuring Hugh Corbett, clerk of the King's Bench. Lawrence Duket, goldsmith, kills Ralph Crepyn, moneylender, and flees to London's St. Mary Le Bow for sanctuary. The next day Duket is found hanged inside the locked church, an apparent suicide. Bishop Burnell, Chancellor for King Edward I, assigns Corbett to investigate. Burnell fears that the antiroyal Populares party will join with practitioners of devil worshipat this time, "Christianity is only skin deep." Hugh Corbett is threatened and attacked while probing "a suicide which was really murder which . . . masked treason, sorcery and rebellion." The santanist group seems to be centered at The Mitre, a tavern owned by the beautiful Alice atte Bowe, with whom Corbett falls in love. The mystery is neatly done and Doherty's ease of scholarship in giving us the rich sights, sounds and smells of medieval London is masterful.
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- PublisherLinford Mystery
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0708955940
- ISBN 13 9780708955949
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages320
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