- Paperback: 249 pages
- Publisher: Headline; New Ed edition (29 Sep 1994)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0747244324
- ISBN-13: 978-0747244325
- Product Dimensions: 11.1 x 1.8 x 17.9 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 214,215 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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November 1302, and Sir Hugh Corbett, Edward I’s Keeper of the Secret Seal, together with his manservant, Ranulf, and messenger, Maltote, are sent to Mortlake Manor on the Norfolk coast to confront an evil rarely seen before. A man’s headless corpse, its head impaled on a pole, has been found on a beach and the pretty young wife of a local baker is discovered hanging from a gallows. The scene is set for more gruesome deaths and Corbett soon realises that the icy wastes of Norfolk, where the eerie song of the Dark Angel wind chills those that live in the small villages along the coast, are just as treacherous as the silken intrigue at the royal court or the violence of London’s fetid alleyways…
About the Author
Paul Doherty was born in Middlesbrough. He studied History at Liverpool and Oxford Universities and obtained a doctorate for his thesis on Edward II and Queen Isabella. He is now headmaster of a school in north-east London and lives with his family in Essex.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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This is the eighth book in the series of medieval mysteries featuring Sir Hugh Corbett. Obviously this is one of Paul Doherty's earlier offerings and he has since written many more books and is now an established author of medieval novels and has also added a number of novels on Egypt to his ever growing list of titles. Having said that it is one of his earlier offerings does not mean that it is inferior to his current books, quite the opposite. The Hugh Corbett mysteries were and are extremely popular and Paul Doherty is still adding to them.
November, 1302 and Sir Hugh Corbett, Keeper of the Secret Seal and a spy for Edward I together with his servant Ranulf, ex bully boy and occasional thief are sent to a manor in the frozen wastes of Norfolk. A cold and merciless wind springs up sweeping the land and sending a chill through the villagers of the hamlets along the coast. It is called the Dark Angel because of the effect it has, but it is as nothing compared to the ice in the human heart.
A headless corpse is found on the beach. At the same time a young woman is found hanging from the gallows. Corbett is soon embroiled in these gruesome deaths and also into the death of an old nun. Did she slip or was a human hand involved in her fall on to the rocks. The Lord of the Manor has his won secrets and the local villagers do not seem to take too kindly to the presence of outsiders.
November, 1302 and Sir Hugh Corbett, Keeper of the Secret Seal and a spy for Edward I together with his servant Ranulf, ex bully boy and occasional thief are sent to a manor in the frozen wastes of Norfolk. A cold and merciless wind springs up sweeping the land and sending a chill through the villagers of the hamlets along the coast. It is called the Dark Angel because of the effect it has, but it is as nothing compared to the ice in the human heart.
A headless corpse is found on the beach. At the same time a young woman is found hanging from the gallows. Corbett is soon embroiled in these gruesome deaths and also into the death of an old nun. Did she slip or was a human hand involved in her fall on to the rocks. The Lord of the Manor has his won secrets and the local villagers do not seem to take too kindly to the presence of outsiders.
10 of 14 people found the following review helpful
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I have read several (although by no means all) of Paul Doherty's medeavel mysteries, and this is one of the best ones. The plot is great, and moves at a brilliant pace. This book does not waffle (as some of his books occasionally do in some passages), and all the while it moves quickly along, and you keep turning those pages. The mystery is a very good one, as well. as convoluted and unguessable as ever.
The only thing i can really ever find fault with is the fact that Doherty does have a tendency to let modern ways of speaking seep into his prose. I know that we have no proof that these people didnt NOT speak like that, but to my ear it sounds a bit out of place.
Nonetheless, this is definitely one of his best mysteries so far, and i highly reccomend it to all lover of historical fiction.
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Book Eight in the Hugh Corbett Mysteries
21 Oct 2006
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This is the eighth book in the series of medieval mysteries featuring Sir Hugh Corbett. Obviously this is one of Paul Doherty's earlier offerings and he has since written many more books and is now an established author of medieval novels and has also added a number of novels on Egypt to his ever growing list of titles. Having said that it is one of his earlier offerings does not mean that it is inferior to his current books, quite the opposite. The Hugh Corbett mysteries were and are extremely popular and Paul Doherty is still adding to them.
November, 1302 and Sir Hugh Corbett, Keeper of the Secret Seal and a spy for Edward I together with his servant Ranulf, ex bully boy and occasional thief are sent to a manor in the frozen wastes of Norfolk. A cold and merciless wind springs up sweeping the land and sending a chill through the villagers of the hamlets along the coast. It is called the Dark Angel because of the effect it has, but it is as nothing compared to the ice in the human heart.
A headless corpse is found on the beach. At the same time a young woman is found hanging from the gallows. Corbett is soon embroiled in these gruesome deaths and also into the death of an old nun. Did she slip or was a human hand involved in her fall on to the rocks. The Lord of the Manor has his won secrets and the local villagers do not seem to take too kindly to the presence of outsiders.
November, 1302 and Sir Hugh Corbett, Keeper of the Secret Seal and a spy for Edward I together with his servant Ranulf, ex bully boy and occasional thief are sent to a manor in the frozen wastes of Norfolk. A cold and merciless wind springs up sweeping the land and sending a chill through the villagers of the hamlets along the coast. It is called the Dark Angel because of the effect it has, but it is as nothing compared to the ice in the human heart.
A headless corpse is found on the beach. At the same time a young woman is found hanging from the gallows. Corbett is soon embroiled in these gruesome deaths and also into the death of an old nun. Did she slip or was a human hand involved in her fall on to the rocks. The Lord of the Manor has his won secrets and the local villagers do not seem to take too kindly to the presence of outsiders.
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