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The Bartholomew Fair Murders (1986)

by Leonard Tourney

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Thou art the seat of the Beast, O Smithfield . . .

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Bartholomew Fair
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On the eleventh of June, the Eve of the Feast of St. Barnabas the Apostle, the old woman who had ruled England longer than most of her subjects could remember strolled amid the floral blazonry of the royal garden at her father's palace of Whitehall, contemplating the very thing it was most distasteful for her to contemplate, her own death.
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Begins June 11, 1602, main action August 1602

On the eve of the Feast of St. Barnabas, Elizabeth the Queen, Good Queen Bess, who had ruled her country longer than most of her subjects could remember, decided that she wanted to go to the Bartholomew Fair, the greatest fair in England. And so she told Sir Robert Cecil, a man of refined tastes, who shuddered and tried to dissuade her. But she was Queen,and she would have her way.

The fair drew people from all across the land, among them County Constable Matthew Stock and his devoted wife, Joan, whose initial pleasure in the fair was tempered by the murder of a puppeteer on the road to the fairgrounds. An odd murder, for the killer had left marks on the dead man's forehead.

And at the fair, in the midst of its usual hurly-burly there was more trouble--much of which centered around Matthew's old schoolfriend Ned Babcock and his trained dog-fighting bear. A very dangerous bear--and not just dangerous for dogs.

There was much that was entertaining at the fair, entertaining for both the Queen and her people, but there were matters savage and murderous, too, that went as high as the Queen's court. [from the jacket]
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