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In the summer of 1380 a French captain is murdered in Hawkmere Manor - a lonely, gloomy dwelling place, otherwise known as the 'Devil's Domain', which is used by Regent John of Gaunt to house French prisoners captured during the bloody battles waged between the French and the English on the Narrow Seas. Sir John Cranston and Brother Athelstan are summoned to investigate the mysterious death but their path is riddled with obstacles. How could the murderer have entered the Frenchman's chamber show more when the room was locked from within? Their aide, Sir Maurice Maltravers, is more of a hindrance than a help, as he faces the misery of heartbreak. Lady Angelica, the woman he intended to marry, has been whisked away to a convent by her tyrannical and disapproving father. It soon becomes apparent that only when the lovers are reunited will any progress be made in the murder investigation... show lessTags
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About the Civil War prison at Anersonville. Historical fiction.
Buena novela del hermano Athelstan. Como muchas veces el misterio del cuarto cerrado. Un crimen de uno de los prisioneros de guerra de Juan de Gante. En el medio un encargo peculiar el hermano Athelstan y Sir John deben hacer de celestinos. Paralelamente crece el fermento de las clases bajas que preanuncian la gran revuelta. La parroquia sigue su vida con los personajes ya conocidos que son muy bien pintados
Jan 14, 2021Spanish
Fiction, Historical fiction, Detective and mystery stories, Middle Ages, 14th century, England, Brother Athelstan series, Book 8, In the summer of 1380, a French captain is murdered in Hawkmere Manor, the room was locked from within, Sir John Cranston and Brother Athelstan are summoned to investigate by John of Gaunt, First published, under the title: 'The Devil's Domain', by Headline, London, July 2, 1998, 384 pp., First Italian edition, under the title: 'Fratello Athelstan - Il regno del male', Mondadori, Milano, February 13, 2000, Il Giallo Mondadori, n. 2663, translated by Elsa Pelitti and Igor Longo, 233 pp., Paul Harding is a pseudonym of Paul C. Doherty
Oct 15, 2019Italian
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- The Devil's Domain
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- London, England, UK (as London, England)
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- 1380
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