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Mystery In The Minster

ebook / ISBN-13: 9780748126057

Price: £9.99

ON SALE: 11th August 2011

Genre: Fiction & Related Items / Crime & Mystery / Historical Mysteries

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For the twentieth anniversary of the start of the Matthew Bartholomew series, Sphere is delighted to reissue all of the medieval monk’s cases with beautiful new series-style covers.

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The seventeenth chronicle in the Matthew Bartholomew series.

In 1358 the fledging college of Michaelhouse in Cambridge is in need of extra funds. A legacy from the Archbishop of York of a parish close to that city promises a welcome source of income. However, there has been another claim to its ownership and it seems the only way to settle the dispute is for a deputation from Michaelhouse to travel north.

Matthew Bartholomew is among the small party which arrives in the bustling city, where the increasing wealth of the merchants is unsettling the established order, and where a French invasion is an ever-present threat to its port. But soon he and his colleagues learn that many of the Archbishop’s executors have died in unexplained circumstances and that the codicil naming Michaelhouse as a beneficiary cannot be found…

‘A first-rate treat for mystery lovers’ (Historical Novels Review)

‘Susanna Gregory has an extraordinary ability to conjure up a strong sense of time and place’ (Choice)

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