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Medieval physician Kathryn Swinbrooke is brought back to Canterbury, this time to investigate a recent plague of rats. The people think that they are being punished, but Swinbrooke discovers that the problem is linked to murder.Tags
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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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Common Knowledge
- Canonical title
- Saintly Murders
- Original title
- Saintly murders
- Original publication date
- 2001
- People/Characters
- Kathryn Swinbrooke; Colum Murtagh; Cecily Neville, Duchess of York
- Important places
- Canterbury, Kent, England, UK
- Important events
- Wars of the Roses (1455 | 1485)
- Epigraph
- My theme is alwey oon, and evere was-Radix malorum est Cupiditas - Chaucer, Prologue to the Pardoner's Tale, The Canterbury Tales
In the Middle Ages women doctors continued to practise in the midst of wars and epidemics as they always had, for the simple reason that they were needed. - Kate Campbellton Hurd-Mead, A History of Women in Medicine - Dedication
- To a marvelous and brave young lady, Lisa Monaghan of Kesh, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, a brilliant student who died 23 December 2000; in loving memory
- First words
- Death had come for Roger Atworth, the former soldier now a member of the Friars of the Order of the Sack in Canterbury.
- Original language
- English UK
- Disambiguation notice
- Published in English as "Saintly Murders"
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- English, French, German
- Media
- Paper, Audiobook, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 8
- ASINs
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