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This title is set in 1195. Prince John plots to seize the throne from his brother, Richard the Lionheart - and in his wicked schemes he is supported by King Philip of France, who offers to help John financially by sending him a mysterious alchemist, a Mohammedan named Nizam, who claims to be able to transmute base metals into gold. But the ship which was transporting Nizam and his retainers to the Devon tin mines is found wrecked off the south Devon coast, its crew savagely slaughtered. Shortly afterwards, Sir Peter le Calve, a Norman knight living near Exeter, is foully murdered, being part-crucified and beheaded, his head stuck on the rood screen of the cathedral. It's up to Sir John de Wolfe, the county coroner, to find a motive and connection between the killings. And just what is his unscrupulous brother-in-law, the disgraced ex-sheriff and known Prince John-sympathiser, Richard de Revelle, trying to hide?
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Professor Bernard Knight, CBE, became a Home Office Pathologist in 1965 and was appointed Professor of Forensic Pathology, University of Wales College of Medicine, in 1980. During his 40-year career with the Home Office, he performed over 25,000 autopsies, and was involved in many high profile cases, including that of Fred and Rose West, and the child killer, Mary Bell. The author of numerous popular and academic non-fiction books, he has written thirteen novels in the Crowner John mystery series. Professor Knight lives in Cardiff.
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I have to concur with J. Chippinadale regarding the quality of Bernard Knight's writing. As far as the Crowner John Mystery Series, I believe that I have all of the series at present as well as a few others. While I enjoy my academic readings, one must have their murder mystery to enjoy too and these are so well written and historically detailed you just can't wait until the next in the series is released. As a matter of fact, I have gone to purchasing from amazon.uk because publishers for Knight and others such as Michael Jecks seem to enjoy not releasing titles in the U.S. until months after releas in the U.K. It is quite unfair to have to wait so long for something so good.
By the way, service to the U.S. by amazon.uk is excellent! I must thank them for their customer service.
By the way, service to the U.S. by amazon.uk is excellent! I must thank them for their customer service.
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Crowner John or to give him his correct title, Sir John de Wolfe, is one of my all time favourite characters in medieval mysteries and if you read or are going to read this or any other of Bernard Knight's Crowner John Mysteries, you will probably understand why.. Dour and more than a little fierce looking but totally honest and incorruptible and a staunch follower of King Richard the Lionheart. He is the total opposite of his brother-in-law the Sheriff of Exeter, apart from the fact that the both have an eye for the ladies.
Prince John is continuing to plot the seize the throne of England away from his brother Richard and he has a staunch and influential ally in Philip the King of France. Philip offers to help solve Prince john's financial problems by sending him an alchemist who claims to be able to transform base metals into gold. But both the ship the alchemist was on and all of the crew are found ship wrecked and murdered off the Devon coast.
Later a knight living close to Exeter is found murdered under mysterious circumstances. It's up to the Crowner to piece the puzzle together are two deeds connected and what is his brother the Sheriff and a staunch supporter of Prince John attempting to hide?
I don't think that Bernard Knight has written a bad book, certainly not in the Crowner John series and this one certainly lives up to expectations. I loved reading it.
Prince John is continuing to plot the seize the throne of England away from his brother Richard and he has a staunch and influential ally in Philip the King of France. Philip offers to help solve Prince john's financial problems by sending him an alchemist who claims to be able to transform base metals into gold. But both the ship the alchemist was on and all of the crew are found ship wrecked and murdered off the Devon coast.
Later a knight living close to Exeter is found murdered under mysterious circumstances. It's up to the Crowner to piece the puzzle together are two deeds connected and what is his brother the Sheriff and a staunch supporter of Prince John attempting to hide?
I don't think that Bernard Knight has written a bad book, certainly not in the Crowner John series and this one certainly lives up to expectations. I loved reading it.
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It's a quick easy read, does no more, no less, than that. I enjoy these Bernard Knight books for that very reason
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Murder Mystery
If you like historical murder mysteries then this is the one for you. An easy read with a few twists in the plot
Published on 18 May 2009 by Morpeth Ken
Errorful
This is the tenth in Knight's series of Crowner John mysteries.
I was in an Exeter bookshop and came across a stand containing all of the books in the series. Read more
I was in an Exeter bookshop and came across a stand containing all of the books in the series. Read more
Published on 1 Feb 2009 by Nicholas Casley
Elixir of Death - Bored to Death
This book was very disappointing after "Fear In The Forest" which I enjoyed.
An unlikely plot laboriously told with constant repetition. Read more
An unlikely plot laboriously told with constant repetition. Read more
Published on 25 Aug 2008 by L. Murphy
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