Buy this book on-line JECKS**, MICHAEL: : The Merchant's Partner: A Medieval West Country MysteryLONDON.HEADLINE,1995. ISBN 0747214872.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.NFINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Colour pictorial illustrated dw/dj by Danuta Mayer with author's b/w portrait photograph to rear panel. Minimal shelf-wear and light creasing to front top and bottom and top rear edges,with a small closed tear to top rear corner - no other nicks or tears present.Very light bumping with minimal,reciprocal creases to both head+foot of spine/backstrip.Top+fore-edges slightly aged as normal but the contents are bright,tight and clean.Book lightly cocked,which seems to be a particular fault in all copies seen so far.Blue paper-covered boards with bright,blocked,silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,1- 377pp.
Set in fourteenth century Devon,'The Merchant's Partner' is the second entertaining and authentic novel in a series featuring Sir Baldwin Furnshill and Simon Puttock.An acceptable copy of a particularly scarce,elusive and hightly collectable title.Having overdone the print run for his first novel,'The Last Templar' (1000 plus copies with many being
remaindered),his publisher's then erred on
the side of caution and printed too few copies.
Midwife and healer Agatha Kyteler is regarded as a witch by the superstitious villagers of Wefford,yet she has no shortage of callers,from the humblest villein to the most elegant and wealthy in the area. But when Agatha's body is found frozen and mutilated in a hedge one wintry morning,there seems to be no clues as to who could be responsible.Not until a local youth runs away and a hue and cry is raised.
Sir Baldwin Furnshill,Keeper of the King's Peace,is not convinced of the youth's guilt and soon manages to persuade his close friend Simon Puttock,bailiff of Lydford Castle,to help him continue with the investigation.As they endeavour to find the true culprit,the darker side of the village,with its suspicion and jealousy,emerges.And what is driving the young foreigner,son of a nobleman,to disappear down towards the moors?
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