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Indlæser... A Tapestry of Murders: The Man of Law's Tale of Mystery and Murder as He Goes on Pilgrimage from London to Canterbury (Canterbury Tales Mysteries 2) (original 1994; udgave 1994)af P.C. Doherty
Work InformationA Tapestry of Murders af P. C. Doherty (1994)
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. Ok so I'm getting into this whole subgenre of medieval mysteries. Like nautical fiction, where I had no idea they went beyond Forester, I didn't realize there was medieval mysteries beyond Ellis Peters. Well, there are, and boy is there a lot of it. Well, there isn't really any feeling of being a part of the era, the mystery could have taken place anywhere, anywhen. While I didn't figure out the exactly what the treasure was, I did figure out where it was. So not great, not terrible, I'll try another, there seem to be plenty. "Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote / The droghte of March hath perced to the roote, / ... Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages, / And sit in halle and talken balderdashes." At least that's what P.C. Doherty seems to think. Theoretically, one of the tales told by The Man of Law, this lump of coal is a rude enough punishment for any bad boy or girl, but to wrap it inside the celestial stockings of The Canterbury Tales is to commit the sin of the Pardoner, in the words of the Host: "And swere it were a relyk of a seint, / Though it were with thy fundement depeint!" In close modern English, "What a piece of crap!" ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
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Chaucer's pilgrims, quarrelling amongst themselves, are now in open countryside enjoying the fresh spring weather as they progress slowly towards Canterbury. A motley collection of travellers, they each have their dark secrets, hidden passions and complex lives. As they shelter in a tavern from a sudden April shower they choose the Man of Law to narrate the next tale of fear and sinister dealings. In August 1358, the Dowager Queen Isabella, mother of King Edward III, the 'She Wolf of France', who betrayed and destroyed her husband because of her adulterous infatuation for Roger Mortimer, lies dying of the pestilence in the sombre fortress of Castle Rising, where her 'loving' son has kept her incarcerated. According the Man of Law, Isabella dies and her body is taken along the Mile End Road and laid to rest in Greyfriars next to the mangled remains of her lover, who has paid dearly for his presumption in loving a queen. Nevertheless, as in life so in death Isabella causes intrigue, violence and murder. Nicholas Chirke, an honest young lawyer, is brought in to investigate the strange events following her death - and quickly finds himself at his wits' end trying to resolve the mysteries before a great scandal unfolds. No library descriptions found. |
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Una trágica y sangrienta narración que nos invita a recorrer el Londres medieval, de los silenciosos claustros a los bulliciosos y fétidos callejones de los barrios bajos, siempre de sorpresa en sorpresa