The Unquiet Bones
Hugh of Singleton, fourth son of a minor knight, has been educated as a clerk. However, feeling no certain calling despite a lively faith, he turns to the profession of surgeon, training in Paris and then hanging out his sign in Oxford. A local lord asks him to track the killer of a young woman...
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Hugh of Singleton, fourth son of a minor knight, has been educated as a clerk. However, feeling no certain calling despite a lively faith, he turns to the profession of surgeon, training in Paris and then hanging out his sign in Oxford. A local lord asks him to track the killer of a young woman whose bones have been found in the castle cess pit.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781854248855 (1854248855)
Publish date: 2008
Publisher: Monarch
Pages no: 252
Edition language: English
Series: The Chronicles of Hugh de Singleton, Surgeon (#1)
Rating: 3* of fiveThis was an agreeable little mystery. I went with the author to fourteenth century Oxford and Bampton, visiting an England pretty well mapped in fiction by now. Still and all, Mr. Starr's characters made agreeable traveling companions, and his plot kept me interested.A university t...
Condition: NewSold by: UKPaperbackshop £3.91AcknowledgementsGlossaryMap of BamptonChapter 1 Uctred thought he had discovered pig bonesThis is the first in a new series of medieval mysteries. Enjoyable enough for a three star and it did filip the charisma factor of the tale that I know the Castle (Go...
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