The Cup of Ghosts (Mathilde of Westminster Trilogy, Book 1)

Paul Doherty

ISBN 10: 0755328752 / ISBN 13: 9780755328758

Published by Headline Publishing Group, GB, 2006

About this Item

By 1322, Mathilde of Westminster was considered the finest physician in London. But in her years as lady-in-waiting to Princess Isabella, she was drawn into the murky politics of the English court, where sudden, mysterious death was part of the tapestry of life. Many years later, Mathilde looks back and chronicles her turbulent life. With her sharp, suspicious intellect ready to distinguish between a fatality and an unnatural death, Mathilde is confronted by a host of chilling murders. The source of these horrors is the fierce political rivalry between Philip of France and Edward of England. This manifests itself in a series of gruesome killings, one of which actually took place during Edward II's Coronation, when a knight of the Royal Household, Sir John Baquelle was crushed to death.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Cup of Ghosts (Mathilde of Westminster Trilogy, Book 1)
• Publisher: Headline Publishing Group, GB
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0755328752
• ISBN 13: 9780755328758
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 231 grams

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Synopsis

1322, Mathilde of Westminster was considered the finest physician in London. But in her years as lady-in-waiting to Princess Isabella, who married the feckless Edward II, she was drawn into the murky politics of the English court, where sudden, mysterious death was part of the tapestry of life.

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.