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Asked to assist a historian with research into a medieval mason, Arnold London is left in no doubt by his superiors that he is to keep his personal interests distinct from his planning work. But when local magistrate Patrick Yates is found dead in his own stableyard by means such as a medieval mason would have used, Arnold's research unlocks vital clues to the Yates murder - and he has to risk his own life to find the killer ...
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Fans of Arnold Landon (A Trout in the Milk), mild-mannered Northumberland bureaucrat, will relish this polite, nicely old-fashioned mystery. Amateur medievalist Landon is asked to help a military historian at Newcastle University in tracing a 12th century master builder. A ruined castle, which may hold crucial clues, lies on the estate of Yates, a much-disliked landlord whose tenants want to stop him from "improving" the estate at their expense. The first two-thirds of the book reveal, to us and to Landon, just how surrounded by enemies Yates isand deservedly so. A young poacher and would-be tenant, a rude, irascible military historian, a solitary, brooding farmer, a putative heir to the estate, the "heir's" strong-willed lady-love, and Yates's housekeeper/mistress all have reason to wish the landlord ill. Landon finds Yates with a medieval crossbow bolt in his chest, and it devolves upon our self-effacing hero to find the villain. Justice is done, but not until Landon must sort through various unruly passions: "People gave him problems of emotional upset." A leisurely, fine-textured treat.
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