A Bone of Contention
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780312167929 (031216792X)
Publish date: 1997
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Pages no: 375
Edition language: English
Series: Matthew Bartholomew (#3)
I enjoyed this historical mystery, set in medieval Cambridge, but it did suffer from two problems. The plot was a little too twisty to be believable, and the villain had a bad case of "James Bond movie villain talking disease." He had our heroes cornered (with a guy with a crossbow fixed on them),...
Another complicated mystery, with multiple strands that are mixed up together. There's tension between the town and university, with riots in Cambridge. The atmosphere isn't helped by the drainage ditch being dredged. Out of the slime, an ambitious college principle dredges a relic of a local martyr...