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Medieval physician Kathryn Swinbrooke is summoned to investigate the disappearance of a sacred relic, the Lacrima Christi, from a well-guarded chapel in Canterbury. Shortly after the relic vanishes, its owner, wealthy lord Sir Walter Maltravers - a former soldier with a troubled past- is found savagely murdered in the maze of hedges in his own garden. As a killer, clearly bent on revenge, continues to strike and more bodies turn up, Kathryn is drawn into Maltravers's shadowy history in her show more search for answers. show lessTags
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Paul C. Doherty was born on September 21, 1946. He is an award winning British author, educator, and historian. He is also the Headmaster of Trinity Catholic High School, Woodford Green, Essex, in the United Kingdom. He went to Liverpool University where he gained a First Class Honours Degree in History and at Exeter College, Oxford, where he show more received a doctorate for his thesis on Edward II. Dr. Doherty is a historian who lectures for a number of organisations, particularly on historical mysteries. Dr. Doherty was awarded an Order of the British Empire for his services to education in 2011. His other career is that of Headmaster at Trinity Catholic High School, Woodford Green, Essex for 30 years. In 1999, the school was given Beacon status which rates it as outstanding among other schools in it's category. Dr. Doherty has published a series of historical mysteries set in the Middle Ages, Classical, Greek, and Ancient Egypt. He writes both fiction and non-fiction under his own name, both as P.C. Doherty and Paul C. Doherty, as well as the pennames: Anna Apostolou, Michael Clynes, and Ann Dukthas. Doherty is the author of several mystery series, including The Sorrowful Mysteries of Brother Athelstan, the Hugh Corbett medieval mysteries, and the Canterbury Tales of mystery. He has written 100 published books which have been printed in several languages and distributed in several different countries including the UK, United States, Spain, and Germany. He was also awarded the Herodotus, for lifelong achievement for excellence in the writing of historical mysteries by the Historical Mystery Appreciation Society. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- A Maze of Murders
- Original title
- A maze of murders
- Original publication date
- 2003
- People/Characters
- Kathryn Swinbrooke; Colum Murtagh
- Important places
- Canterbury, Kent, England, UK
- Important events
- Wars of the Roses (1455 | 1485)
- Epigraph*
- Und nach seinem Tod hat ein Tier keine weiteren Qualen ; doch der Mensch muß nach seinem Tod weinen und klagen... (Geoffrey Chaucer, Die Canterbury-Erzählungen)
Im Mittelalter gab es Ärztinnen, die auch in Kriegswirren und während großer Epidemien unbeirrt praktizierten, wie sie es immer schon getan hatten, einfach weil man sie brauchte. (Kate Campbellton Hurd-Mead, Geschichte der... (show all) Frauen in der Medizin) - Dedication*
- Für eine überragende Krankenschwester und Heilerin, Helen Dorgan, Whipps Cross Hospital, North London
- First words*
- Im Jahr des Herrn 1453 fiel die Stadt Konstantinopel an die Türken - damit endete das byzantinische Zeitalter.
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