Buy this book on-line ROBB**, CANDACE: : THE CROSS-LEGGED KNIGHT: The New Owen Archer MysteryLONDON.WILLIAM HEINEMANN,2002. ISBN 0434005150.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean, glossy laminated,colour illustration,by David Senior,to upper panel of dw/dj,with yellow and
b/w lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present - spine/backstrip is not sunned/
faded.Top+fore-edges generally clean,but both with slight ageing/tanning - a ubiquitous fault; contents bright,tight,clean - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners, appears unread - apart from my own collation. Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain black cloth boards with bright, crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn,1-327pp [paginated] includes 23 chapters+epilogue,author's note; plus [unpaginated] author's potted biography,title page,contents list/table,a dedication, acknowledgements,2 facing b/w maps (Owen Archer's 14thC town maps of York),a prologue,and 8pp blanks at the rear.
Author's 8th Owen Archer novel.
England 1371: a solemn convoy wends its way into York.William of Wykeham,Bishop of Winchester,is bringing home the remains of Sir Ranulf Pagnell,patriach of a powerful local family,who has died in France.But the family hold the bishop responsible for Sir Ranulf's death,and ill feeling surrounds his arrival. An accident in the grounds of York Minster nearly kills the bishop.
Then,only a few days later,his townhouse is found ablaze.When the body of a young woman is discovered in the undercroft of the house,
scandal threatens to destroy Wykeham.
The Archbishop of York,John Thoresby,asks Owen Archer for his help.The one-eyed spy is troubled.
Was the fire an accident or arson? Was the woman trapped or the fire started to conceal a corpse? Stationing guards in front of the smouldering remains,he starts to ask
questions.When it appears the dead woman was a midwife known to many of the city's women, including Lucie,Owen's wife,his quest becomes personal.
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