The Unquiet Bones

Melvin R. Starr

ISBN 10: 1854248855 / ISBN 13: 9781854248855

Published by Monarch, 2008

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Unquiet Bones
• Publisher: Monarch
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1854248855
• ISBN 13: 9781854248855
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Hugh of Singleton, fourth son of a minor knight, has been educated as a clerk, usually a prelude to taking holy orders. However, feeling no certain calling despite a lively faith, he turns to the profession of surgeon, training in Paris and then hanging out his sign in Oxford. A local lord asks him to track the killer of a young woman whose bones have been found in the castle cess pit. She is identified as the impetuous missing daughter of a local blacksmith, and her young man, whom she had provoked very publicly, is in due course arrested and sentenced at the Oxford assizes. From there the tale unfolds, with graphic medical procedures, droll medieval wit, misdirection, ambition, romantic distractions and a consistent underlying Christian compassion.

About the Author

Mel Starr has spent many years teaching history, and has studied medieval surgery and medieval English. He lives in Michigan.