A drunken attempt at blackmail by Norbert Tulyet, errant scholar of the Franciscan Hostel of Ovyng, leaves his dead at the hostel door. And in St Michael’s church, a second unidentified body holds an even greater mystery.
For Matthew Bartholomew, the murders would be difficult to solve at any normal time of the year, but now he has a further serious distraction to deal with. Philippa Abigny, to whom he was once betrothed, has returned to Cambridge with the man she left him for, the merchant Sir Walter Turke.
Bartholomew hopes that the couple’s stay will be brief, but he is about to be sorely disappointed. For not only does the mysterious body in church turn out to be Walter’s servant, but events conspire to ensure that Walter will never leave Cambridge again…
Original. Used Paperback in very good condition.2003.
