A snowy March, 1367, and King Edward is impatient. He wants his privy councillor, William of Wykeham, confirmed as Bishop of Winchester, but Pope Urban V is stalling, deterred by the man's wealth and political ambition. Thus Owen Archer finds himself heading a deputation from York to Fountains Abbey to try to win support for Wykeham from the powerful Cistercian abbots. Ignoring the advice of his apothecary wife, Lucie, he places his old comrade Ned Townley in charges of the fellow company to Rievaulx, hoping to dispel ...
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A snowy March, 1367, and King Edward is impatient. He wants his privy councillor, William of Wykeham, confirmed as Bishop of Winchester, but Pope Urban V is stalling, deterred by the man's wealth and political ambition. Thus Owen Archer finds himself heading a deputation from York to Fountains Abbey to try to win support for Wykeham from the powerful Cistercian abbots. Ignoring the advice of his apothecary wife, Lucie, he places his old comrade Ned Townley in charges of the fellow company to Rievaulx, hoping to dispel rumours of Ned's involvement in a mysterious death. But just days out of York trouble erupts- first a friar, then Ned vanish, following news of a murder at Windsor. Owen asks John Thoresby, at court in his role as Lord Chancellor, to investigate, little knowing it will involve him with the King's mistress, Alice Perrers, ever a dangerous enemy. . .
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Very good in very good dust jacket. Signed by author. possible slight water stains top of page block and dustcover. slight crumpling of dustcover along top of page block. 304 p. Owen Archer Mystery S., 4. Audience: General/trade.
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Very Good. No Jacket. Size: 12mo-over 6? "-7? " tall; Mass Market Paperback in Very Good Condition. Clean and unmarked with just a touch of cover edgewear. Glued binding tight. Pages clean, no marks, no tears. It is 1367 and Sir William of Wyndesore's page is found drowned in the icy Windsor castle moat--and the adventure begins--"from the murky Thames to the misty moors of the North, murder stalks Welsh soldiers. Sleuth Owne Archer and his apothecary wife Lucie become enmeshed in dark and bloody intrugues of Church, court and crown to solve the case. 364 pages. New York. St. Martin's Press, 1997.
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