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The Priest's Tale in the Canterbury Tales series is one of greed, devilish murder and chilling hauntingsTags
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I've read 2 or 3 other books in this "Canterbury Tales" series of medieval mysteries by Doherty. They all feature dark doings and a question of "is it or is it not supernatural?" In this installment, as the group of pilgrims sits in an abandoned village, emptied by the Black Death years earlier, the Poor Priest tells his tale - years before, when he came to the village of Scawsby, he felt that something was not right with the town. Did the secret lie within the town's legends - that, a generation ago, a fleeing group of Templars was ambushed by the villagers, and their precious treasure stolen? The village church seems cursed, and ghostly horsemen are seen on the borders of the marches that surround the town...
Not bad...
Not bad...
Ok I tried another, this one was awful. He cheated, here I am trying to figure out the mystery about the haunting (oooooo), and what's the mystery? It's actually haunted! Well, that's no mystery. Feh, once you introduce the supernatural, you forfeit the ability to reason out a mystery. It's the same shabby behaviour that made me hate Vanilla Sky
The poorest of Doherty's many historical crime series.This does not really come off I'm afraid
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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
- Ghostly Murders
- Original publication date
- 1997
- Dedication
- For Richard, Nijole and Thomas (O'Brien)
- First words
- The pilgrims were lost.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)The Ploughman looked at the pair of eyes which had been drawn in charcoal on the fading plaster; beneath were scrawled the words: "Spectamus te, semper spectabimus te! We are watching you, we shall always be watching you!"
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