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When Crowner John is summoned to the bleak Devonshire moors to investigate the murder of a tin miner, he has little idea how difficult this new investigation will prove to be. The victim is a trusted and well-loved overman of Devon's most powerful and successful mine owner, Walter Knapman. There seems to be only one possible motive - to sabotage Walter's business. But the tinners have their own laws, and they are none too pleased at Crowner John's interference. Especially as their main experience of officials has been with Sheriff Richard de Revelle, whose notoriously high taxes keep them in a permanent state of fury and near rebellion. And then Walter disappears. Stephen Acland, Walter's business rival wastes no time in comforting Walter's beautiful wife Joan, who appears remarkably unmoved by her husband's disappearance. Meanwhile, Walter's brother is going frantic with worry ...or could it be guilt? A decapitated body, a missing tinner, a disgruntled band of miners and a mad Saxon, intent on the destruction of all things Norman. How on earth can Crowner John sort all this out when his wife hates him, his mistress has spurned him for a younger man, and his clerk is in the grip of a suicidal depression? Only Gwyn, Crowner John's indispensable right-hand man seems to be of any help at all, until he is arrested for murder and put on trial for his life.
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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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Bernard Knight, or to give him his correct title, Professor Bernard Knight, CBE, was a pathologist to the Home office until 1980 when he was appointed Professor of Forensic Pathology at the University of Wales College of medicine, 1980. He has written the extremely successful Crowner John series of medieval mysteries, of which there are now ten or eleven books, His character Crowner John is certainly among my favourite characters in medieval mysteries.
Sir John de Wolfe, better known to both his friends and enemies as Crowner John, a name that refers to his post as county coroner of Devon, find himself out on the bleak moors investigating the murder of a tin miner. The moor is a cold and forbidding place, but anything that takes him away from his shrewish wife and her mood swings and constant nagging is a bonus in John's book. The victim worked for one of the most successful mine owner's in the area, Walter Knapman.
The tin miners have their own laws and rough justice and are none too please at the Crowner's interference and then Knapman disappears. Sir John realises that he will get little if any help from the miners. The only assistance he can rely upon is from Gwyn, his right hand man, but when he too gets arrested for murder and put on trial, Sir John's task becomes ever more difficult . . .
Sir John de Wolfe, better known to both his friends and enemies as Crowner John, a name that refers to his post as county coroner of Devon, find himself out on the bleak moors investigating the murder of a tin miner. The moor is a cold and forbidding place, but anything that takes him away from his shrewish wife and her mood swings and constant nagging is a bonus in John's book. The victim worked for one of the most successful mine owner's in the area, Walter Knapman.
The tin miners have their own laws and rough justice and are none too please at the Crowner's interference and then Knapman disappears. Sir John realises that he will get little if any help from the miners. The only assistance he can rely upon is from Gwyn, his right hand man, but when he too gets arrested for murder and put on trial, Sir John's task becomes ever more difficult . . .
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After a bit of a disappointment with the previous novel 'The Awful Secret', Bernard Knight is back on form with this one.
The adventures of an early Corononer (or 'Crowner') and his unlikely team in solving various Medieval murders.
This time the murders take place amid the tin mining industry on Dartmoor.
The usual antagonisms exist in the background. His nagging wife Matlida, scheming brother in law (the Sheriff) and his bit on side, Inn owner Nesta, who in this novel, causes John pain of the heart as she rejects him for a younger man.
I can almost imagine myself walking the Medieval streets of Exeter with Crowner John.
Very well written and researched with twists and turns enough to keep you guessing to the end.
The adventures of an early Corononer (or 'Crowner') and his unlikely team in solving various Medieval murders.
This time the murders take place amid the tin mining industry on Dartmoor.
The usual antagonisms exist in the background. His nagging wife Matlida, scheming brother in law (the Sheriff) and his bit on side, Inn owner Nesta, who in this novel, causes John pain of the heart as she rejects him for a younger man.
I can almost imagine myself walking the Medieval streets of Exeter with Crowner John.
Very well written and researched with twists and turns enough to keep you guessing to the end.
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Ths series of books is just fabulous. A chance find set me on the track of this author and so far I have been quite entranced by his story telling. The way he wraps fact around fiction, going to endless pains to explain about life in mediaeval England while at the same time not deviating in any way from the story line makes such excellent reading. I can not praise him enough.
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crowner john mysteries
It's a quick easy read, does no more, no less, than that. I enjoy these Bernard Knight books for that very reason
Published 11 months ago by Mr. B. F. Knowles
Fifth Book in a Captivating Series
Bernard Knight, or to give him his correct title, Professor Bernard Knight, CBE, was a pathologist to the Home office until 1980 when he was appointed Professor of Forensic... Read more
Published on 22 Feb 2008 by J. Chippindale
OK as a quick read
I began reading the Crowner John series with this one. As it was also my first medieval-thriller book, I wasn't able to compare it with other books of the same genre. Read more
Published on 27 Nov 2001
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