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Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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The town is a powder keg ready to explode ... All it needs is a match. England, 1320. The threat of civil war lies heavily on the kingdom. The monk Ralph of Houndeslow is new to Crediton's leper hospital. He finds that not only are his charges appallingly ill, but bigotry means that they are all shunned by the people of the town. The citizens of Crediton are appalled when the goldsmith is found murdered, and his daughter assaulted. Sir Baldwin Furnshill...
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Publisher
Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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No rest for the wicked, not even at Christmas...For Sir Baldwin Furnshill, Keeper of the King's Peace, and Bailiff Simon Puttock, Christmas 1321 is set to be marvellous. They are to receive the prestigious gloves of honor in a ceremony led by the specially elected Boy-Bishop.
But they soon learn that Ralph — the glove maker — has been stabbed to death. Then Peter, a Secondary at the cathedral, collapses from poisoning.
Simon and Baldwin must...
Author
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Publisher
Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
When a Knight Templar is murdered, things get personal for Baldwin ... On their way to a feast, Sir Baldwin Furnshill and Bailiff Simon Puttock find the murdered corpse of Sir Gilbert, a Knight Templar and old comrade of Baldwin's. The situation is confounded when a decapitated body is found. Baldwin and Simon's suspicions that the two deaths are linked seem to be justified when Baldwin himself is attacked. Baldwin and Simon find themselves caught...
Author
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Publisher
Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Two generations slain ... but are there more to come? Spring, 1321. As Sir Baldwin Furnshill prepares for his wedding, he receives the news that one of his guests, Roger , Squire of Throwleigh has just died. The new master of Throwleigh is little Herbert , five years old and isolated by his grief, as his mother Katherine unfairly blames him for her husband's death. At Lady Katherine's visible rejection of her son, Baldwin feels deeply disturbed about...
Author
Publisher
Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
When the devil comes calling, all you can do is pray. Amidst the myth and folklore of Tavistock, one tale above all others strikes fear into the hearts of the town's inhabitants - that of the murders on the Abbot's Way. A young acolyte paid the price for stealing his abbot's wine when the devil himself led him to his death on the treacherous Devon moors. Now, in the autumn of 1322, it looks as though history may be repeating itself. Abbot Robert has...
Author
Series
Publisher
Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The discovery of a young girl's skeleton leads to Simon and Baldwin's darkest investigation yet ... As the summer of 1322 brings sun to the Devonshire countryside, it seems that the small village of Sticklepath is destined to remain in gloom. Two playmates uncover the body of a young girl up on the moors. The body is that of Aline, the ten-year-old daughter of Swetricus, who went missing six years ago. Baldwin Furnshill, Keeper of the King's Peace,...
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