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1322: Lord Hugh de Courtenay's plan to host a tournament is a fantastic opportunity for the money-lenders of Oakhampton. When the defeated knights find themselves unable to pay the traditional ransoms to their captors, they will have only one avenue open to them - and will accrue interest by the hour. But when the most prominent money-lender, Benjamin Dudenay, is found brutally murdered a month before the festivities, Sir Baldwin Furnshill and Bailiff Simon Puttock find themselves on the show more trail of a sinister killer... show lessTags
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Simon Puttock tries to emulate his father by organising a tournament for Lord Hugh, only to find his efforts come to nothing when bodies turn up and he is cast as main suspect.
Not one of the author's best. I kept getting some of the minor characters who were meant to be potential suspects muddled and had a good idea of who the murderer actually was pretty early on. Also two of the victims (out of five) were a gay couple, the first gay characters I remember in this series, but the reader's sympathies were obviously meant to lie with the murderer.
Not one of the author's best. I kept getting some of the minor characters who were meant to be potential suspects muddled and had a good idea of who the murderer actually was pretty early on. Also two of the victims (out of five) were a gay couple, the first gay characters I remember in this series, but the reader's sympathies were obviously meant to lie with the murderer.
I have virtually all of Jecks' works. I am new to Library Things so am not going to go into great detail except to say that he has given me many hours of reading pleasure and largley give him 5 stars. Although it has been some years since I found one of the later stories, I was, at the time, prompted to find the first in the series, etc. It is grand that both his former publisher and his new publisher (Simon & Schuster UK) are republishing his books in print and other formats. I have given Jecks 5 star reviews over the years since I stumbled on to him. As to his research, historically it is from primary sources wherein he writes plausible tales into the historical setting.
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Michael Jecks was born in Surrey, United Kingdom in 1960. He worked as a computer salesman for thirteen years before becoming a full-time author of medieval murder mysteries. His first book, The Last Templar, was published in 1994. Most of his books are either based on Dartmoor legends or on actual events recorded in Coroner's Rolls or the Crown show more Pleas of the Devon Eyre. He writes the Knights Templar series as well as The Medieval Murderers with Bernard Knight, Ian Morsen, Susannah Gregory, and Phillip Gooden. In 2007, his twenty-first novel, The Death Ship of Dartmouth was short-listed for the Theakston's Old Peculier prize for the best crime novel of the year. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- The Tournament of Blood
- Original publication date
- 2001-06-07
- Important events
- Reign of Edward II, King of England (1307-07-07 | 1327-01-25)
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- 202
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- 161,346
- Reviews
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- Languages
- English, Italian
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 7
- ASINs
- 5
