The Assassin's Riddle

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[very slight age-toning to the edges of the text block, two small tape-repaired tears at the bottom of two pages, one-time owner's name plus date & place of purchase written in ink at edge of rear pastedown (concealed beneath the jacket flap); the jacket is flawless]. (The Sorrowful Mysteries of Brother Athelstan) Series (map of London) The seventh entry in this long-running mystery series about a crime-solving Dominican parish priest, set in Medieval England. "In the summer of 1830 brutal and sudeen death is not uncommon in the foul alleys and streets of London. But now the Fisher of Men, an eerie, ghoulish royal official, has pulled the corpse of Edwin Chapler, clerk of the Office of the Green Wax of the Chancery, from the Thames. Chapler has drowned, but not before he received a vicious blow to the back of the head. The next morning Bartholomew Drayton, a usurer and money-lender, is found dead is found dead in his strongroom, a crossbow firmly embedded in his chest. His death is a real mystery because the strongroom was locked and barred from the inside and there are no windows or secret passageways. So who killed him? And how? And what connects the two deaths?" This was the last book in the series before the author abandoned his "Paul Harding" pseudonym; all the subsequent books in the series have been published until his real name. N° de ref. del artículo 30791

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