[bksvol-discuss] Submitted/mystery
- From: "Deborah Murray" <blinkeeblink@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2013 19:16:40 -0400
Hi all,
I've just submitted for proofing "Murder Most Holy: Being The Third Of The
Sorrowful Mysteries Of Brother Athelstan" by Paul Doherty.
It's been read and spell-checked. All headers stripped, page numbers/chapter
titles present, fonts adjusted.
247 pages.
Description:
In the early summer of 1379 in London, Sir John Cranston, coroner of the
city, is invited to a great banquet at the Regent's palace on the Thames.
There he is trapped into a wager with Signior Gian Galeazzo, Lord of
Cremona, who challenges him to resolve a certain murder mystery within two
weeks. Men have been found dead in the scarlet chamber of one of Cremona's
manors. They have no mark upon them; they have neither drunk nor eaten
poison; there are no secret passageways or entrances to the room. And they
all have awful expressions of terror upon their faces.
Realizing that his reputation and future wealth now rest upon the solving of
this mystery, Cranston seeks the help of his faithful secretarius Brother
Athelstan. However, Athelstan has problems of his
own. At St Erconwald's, during renovation of the sanctuary, a skeleton has
been unearthed. Religious hysteria ensues when a man is miraculously healed
whilst leaning in prayer against the skeleton's coffin. Athelstan watches
helplessly as his parish church attracts not only well-meaning pilgrims but
all the religious hucksters and swindlers in London's underworld.
Meanwhile, there are sinister influences at work at the great chapter of
Dominican Friars being held at Blackfriars. One friar has died in mysterious
circumstances and another has disappeared. Sir John Cranston and Athelstan
are called in to investigate ...
Deborah
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