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1) Timeline
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English
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In an Arizona desert a man wanders in a daze, speaking words that make no sense. Within twenty-four hours he is dead, his body swiftly creamated by his only known associates. Halfway around the world archaeologists make a shocking discovery at a medieval site. Suddenly they are swept off to the headquarters of a secretive multinational corporation that has developed an astounding technology. Now this group is about to get a chance not to study...
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Dericott tale volume 3
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English
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In this retelling of the fairy tale Sleeping Beauty, Princess Elyce escapes unscrupulous King Conrad by taking a sleeping potion, and after Sir Gerard wakes her with a kiss they begin their journey to Prague in the dead of winter.
France, 1382. Princess Elyce is being forced to marry, thus forming an alliance that will enrich her father but enslave her kingdom. She feigns her death and flees to Prague to beg King Wenceslaus to help save her people....
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Pub. Date
2012
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English
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It is the autumn of 1367. Master Hugh is enjoying the peaceful life of Bampton when a badly beaten man is found under the porch of St. Andrew's Chapel. The dying man is a chapman--a traveling merchant. Before he is buried in the chapel grounds, an ancient, corroded coin is found in the man's mouth.
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Chronicle of Hugh de Singleton, surgeon volume 13
Chronicles of Hugh de Singleton surgeon volume 13
Chronicle of Hugh de Singleton surgeon volume 13
Chronicles of Hugh de Singleton surgeon volume 13
Chronicle of Hugh de Singleton surgeon volume 13
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"Keeping watch over the Easter Sepulchre, where the Host and crucifix are stored between Good Friday and Easter Sunday, is considered a privilege. So, it is shocking when it is discovered that Odo, the priest's clerk, has abandoned his post. But as the hours pass and Odo is not found, Hugh de Singleton is called upon. It is Hugh that finds the dried blood before the altar, and fear grows for the missing man... Will Hugh be called upon to investigate...
9) Cathedral
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Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"At the center of this story is the Cathedral. Its design and construction in the 13th and 14th centuries in the Rhineland town of Hagenburg unites a vast array of unforgettable characters whose fortunes are inseparable from the shifting political factions and economic interests vying for supremacy. From the bishop to his treasurer to local merchants and lowly stonecutters, everyone, even the town's Jewish denizens, is implicated and affected by the...
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Chronicle of Hugh de Singleton, surgeon volume 7
Chronicle of Hugh de Singleton surgeon volume 7
Hugh de Singleton chronicles volume 7
Chronicle of Hugh de Singleton surgeon volume 7
Hugh de Singleton chronicles volume 7
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
Description
Master Hugh is making his way towards Oxford when he discovers the young Benedictine - a fresh body, barefoot - not half a mile from the nearby abbey. The abbey's novice master confirms the boy's identity: John, one of three novices. But he had gone missing four days previously, and his corpse is fresh. There has been plague in the area, but this was not the cause of death: the lad has been stabbed in the back. To Hugh's sinking heart, the abbot has...
11) Spiteful bones
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Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"Restoring his recently inherited family home is a daunting enough task for young lawyer Nigellus Cobmartin without the addition of any unwelcome discoveries. But when workmen turning the crumbling manor house into a grand home for Nigellus and his companion, John Rykener, uncover a skeleton bound, tied and hidden in the wall - and holding the precious relic that went missing from his father's estate nearly twenty years ago - Nigellus immediately...
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Chronicle of Hugh de Singleton, surgeon volume 14
Chronicle of Hugh de Singleton surgeon volume 14
Chronicles of Hugh de Singleton surgeon volume 14
Chronicle of Hugh de Singleton surgeon volume 14
Chronicles of Hugh de Singleton surgeon volume 14
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"One of Master John Wycliffe?s scholars is found dead after a thunderstorm. Was he stuck by lightning, or was there something more sinister to his death? Scholar Richard Sabyn, a particularly obnoxious fellow, was believed to have been struck by lightning. However, Master Wycliffe believes otherwise and calls upon Sir Hugh de Singleton for help. Sir Hugh shares Wycliffe?s suspicions and launches a private investigation, learning that it might indeed...
13) Vagabond
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Grail Quest (Bernard Cornwell) volume 2
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English
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In the eagerly anticipated sequel to The Archer's Tale in Bernard Cornwell's acclaimed Grail Quest series, a young archer sets out to avenge his family's honor on the battlefields of the Hundred Years' War and winds up on a quest for the Holy Grail. 1347 is a year of war and unrest. England's army is fighting in France, and the Scots are invading from the North. Thomas of Hookton, sent back to England to follow an ancient trail to the Holy Grail,...
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Pub. Date
[2013]
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English
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"Thomas atte Bridge, a man no one likes, is found hanging from a tree near Cow-leys Corner. All assume he has taken his own life, but Master Hugh and Kate find evidence that this may not be so. Many of the town had been harmed by Thomas, and Hugh is not eager to send one of them to the gallows. Then he discovers that the priest John Kellet, atte Bridge's partner in crime in A CORPSE AT ST. ANDREW'S CHAPEL, was covertly in Bampton at the time atte...
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Abbess of Meaux mysteries volume 11
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"February, 1390. The Church seethes with rebellion. Newly elected Pope Boniface faces a challenger: the anti-pope Clement, who sows discord from his power base in France.The quarrel threatens the very survival of the Cistercian Order. So when suspicions grow that distant Beaulieu Abbey may turn traitor, Hildegard's prioress summons her with a mission she can't refuse: travel to the isolated royal abbey and spy out their true allegiance.The public...
16) The lawless land
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Tales of the lawless land volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"England, 1351. The Pestilence has ravaged the land. Villages lie abandoned but for crows and corpses. Highways are patrolled by marauders and murderers. In these dark and dangerous times, the wise keep to themselves. But Gerard Fox cannot afford to be wise. The young knight has been robbed of his ancestral home, his family name tarnished. To regain his lands and reputation, he sets forth to petition the one man who can restore them. Fate places Fox...
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Chronicle of Hugh de Singleton, surgeon volume 11
Chronicle of Hugh de Singleton surgeon volume 11
Chronicles of Hugh de Singleton surgeon volume 11
Chronicle of Hugh de Singleton surgeon volume 11
Chronicles of Hugh de Singleton surgeon volume 11
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Master Hugh won the Black Prince's favour when he helped ease the prince's illness. Now, in the autumn of 1372, the prince is suffering a relapse and sends to Bampton for Master Hugh to attend him. While at dinner in Kennington Palace, Sure Giles, the knight who escorted Hugh to London, is stricken and dies. Poison! Sir Giles is not popular, and there are many who would gladly see the follow done away with--except for Prince Edward. The Black Prince...
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Chronicle of Hugh de Singleton, surgeon volume 10
Chronicle of Hugh de Singleton surgeon volume 10
Chronicles of Hugh de Singleton surgeon volume 10
Chronicle of Hugh de Singleton surgeon volume 10
Chronicles of Hugh de Singleton surgeon volume 10
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
Description
When Bampton's coroner, Hubert Shillside, does not return from a trip to Oxford, Master Hugh de Singleton is called. Concerned for his old friend, Hugh takes to the road to investigate. Travel is safer than in times hence but, out of sight of prying eyes; it is still unwise to travel alone ... Hugh finds a body, stabbed and left to rot, but it is not the body he was expecting to find. Indeed, reports of pillage, attacks, and chaos on the roads out...
19) Without a trace
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Chronicle of Hugh de Singleton, surgeon volume 12
Chronicle of Hugh de Singleton surgeon volume 12
Chronicles of Hugh de Singleton surgeon volume 12
Chronicle of Hugh de Singleton surgeon volume 12
Chronicles of Hugh de Singleton surgeon volume 12
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
Description
"Lady Philippa, the wife of Sir Aymer - a knight of the realm - disappears while travelling from her husband's manor to Bampton. She and her maid are travelling in an enclosed wagon, whilst her husband and his grooms and a squire are mounted. When the party arrives at Bampton Castle neither the lady nor her maid are within the enclosed wagon: they have simply vanished. As the disappearance may have happened while the travellers were on Lord Gilbert's...
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Pub. Date
2013
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English
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Another slice of medieval skullduggery from the surgeon-turned-sleuth Master Hugh, surgeon and bailiff, is asked to provide a sleeping potion for Sir Henry Burley, a friend and guest of Lord Gilbert at Bampton Castle. Sir Henry--with his current wife, a daughter by a first wife, two knights, two squires, and assorted servants--has outstayed his welcome at Bampton. The next morning, Sir Henry is found dead, eyes open, in his bed. Master Hugh, despite...
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