- Paperback: 224 pages
- Publisher: Corgi; New edition edition (19 Sep 1991)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0552136506
- ISBN-13: 978-0552136501
- Product Dimensions: 17.5 x 10.7 x 2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,140,636 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The Saracen's Head was the perfect setting for a Jacobean Arts Festival and all sorts of people had turned up for the occasion. Much merriment was had by all until, that is, the loathsome landlord was found murdered.
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Barnard 'stages' another curtain call!,
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This review is from: Death and the Chaste Apprentice (Paperback)
Robert Barnard is usually a treat to read. And "Death and the Chaste Apprentice" is no exception. Bernard is quite prolific in his writing/subject matter and often chooses literary characters or subjects about which to write. In this work, we find the London suburb of Ketterick presenting its annual fine arts festival, "The Chaste Apprentice" being the theatrical entry (an "easily forgotten" Elizabethan drama!). Des Capper, the obnoxious host of The Saracen's Head, where the play is being presented and where the actors themselves are residing, is found stabbed in the back--a rather symbolic gesture, as it were, due to Capper's zeal to "unearth the hidden" from the cast and company. It appears that all the cast members have their own alibies--as he certainly died during the performance! Or so we think. Barnard is always quite clever with his story line--and plethora of literary allusions and references. He also introduces young Charlie Peace, who is to be featured in later Barnard stories. This book is fraught with clever theatrical references and idioms and moves along at a fast pace. Barnard's wit and expertise show through readily. Not a "deep" book, but certainly a worthwhile one, especially if you like British mysteries with a twist of wry!
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Introduces Charlie Peace...,
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This review is from: Death and the Chaste Apprentice (Mass Market Paperback)
...who develops into a more rouded character later in the series.
But if you want to work through all the novels featuring a detective you like then you have to start here. To a 21st century reader this novel is rather twee and old fashioned, but it tells you how the genre was in 1989...
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An Introduction to Charlie Peace,
By Robert Barnard, currently lives in Yorkshire with his wife. He was born in Essex on 23 November, 1936. Educated at the Royal Grammar School in Colchester and at Balliol College, Oxford, taking his Ph.D. from the University of Bergen, Norway, in 1972, he spent many years as a distinguished academic while establishing himself as one of today's most distinguished crime writers. His fascination with the pure detective story is evident in his many novels. Robert Barnard is a good example of the writer who prefers his detective novels to be just that, based on detection. There are no `bells and whistles' in his books. It is virtually always true that good honest police work gets to the bottom of the crimes being committed. This is one of his earlier books published in 1989 and introducing a young and fresh Charlie Peace, a character who will feature in many of his later stories. The story revolves around a long forgotten Elizabethan drama, The Chaste Apprentice, an entry in a fine arts festival in London. The host of the Saracen's Head, the place where the members of the cast are staying, is found dead and not from natural causes. He has been stabbed in the back. Although all the members of the cast come under suspicion, they would seem to have cast iron alibis, as it is almost certain that the man died during the performance of the play . . .
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