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It's the summer of 1380 and the corpse of Edwin Chapler, clerk of the Office of the Green Wax of the Chancery, has been pulled from the Thames: Chapler has drowned, but not before he received a vicious blow to the back of the head. Then Bartholomew Drayton, a usurer and money-lender, is found dead in his strongroom, a crossbow firmly embedded in his chest: a real mystery because the windowless strongroom was locked and barred from the inside. So who killed him; And how; And are the two show more deaths connected; Sir John Cranston, the Coroner of the City of London, comes to survey the scene. When other clerks are murdered, each with a riddle pinned to his corpse, Cranston enlists the help of his secretarius, Brother Athelstan; and together they must pit their wits against a deadly adversary bent on murder and mayhem. show lessTags
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El hermano Athelstan resuelve otros crimenes. La estructura es la de siempre: dos crimenes graves y cometidos por poderosos y uno pequeñito cometido por la gente del puebloe. un usurero aparece muerto en una pieza cerrada y robado. Además unos oficinistas del rey son perseguidos. Mientras tanto un milagro sacude la parroquia
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- Canonical title
- The Assassin's Riddle
- Original publication date
- 1996
- People/Characters
- Brother Athelstan; Sir John Cranston
- Important places
- London, England, UK
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