The Hawks of Delamere

by Edward Marston

Domesday Mystery (7)

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Ralph Delchard and Gervase Bret come to Cheshire to settle a series of disputes. What they don't expect to find is a hostage, a suspicious priest and a gruesome death.

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This is the seventh book in the Domesday Series, and it is just as good as the others. My only regret is that I am coming to the end of this wonderful series. There are only three books left, and I will certainly miss Gervaise Bret and the wonderful Ralph Delchard. In this book the four members of the royal commission are in Cheshire, where border trouble with the Welsh appears to be building up. They are staying the in castle of the infamouse Earl Hugh who has always scandalized the countrside with his behaviour. When one of his huntsmen is shot with an arrow next to Hugh, he gets his castle mobilized for a war with the Welsh, and it looks like our intrepid four are to be caught up in the melee. These eleventh century books are so show more historically accurate, and so well-written, that it feels like you are actually there with the action as you read. show less

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Marston also wrote under the pseudonym The Amateur Angler.

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Canonical title
The Hawks of Delamere
Original publication date
1998-05-07
People/Characters
Ralph Delchard; Gervase Bret; Canon Hubert; Brother Simon; Golde; Idwal
Epigraph
This man, with the help of many cruel barons, shed much Welsh blood. His retinue was more like an army than a household, and in giving and receiving he kept no account. Each day he devastated his own land, and preferred fal... (show all)coners and huntsmen to the cultivators of the soil and ministers of heaven.

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It took three strong men to help him into the saddle.
Last words
(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Brother Simon emitted his first laugh of the year.

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Fiction and Literature, Mystery, Historical Fiction
DDC/MDS
823.914Literature & rhetoricEnglish & Old English literaturesEnglish fiction1900-1901-19991945-1999
LCC
PR6063 .I3175 .H3Language and LiteratureEnglishEnglish Literature1961-2000
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