Book 2020

A Corpse at St Andrew's Chapel

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Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 2020

Fiction
Beadles
Surgeons
Crimes against
History
Fiction, crime
Physicians, fiction
Great britain, fiction

Hugh is called in when the body of Alan, beadle of the medieval manor of Bampton, is discovered with his throat torn out, and his face, hands, and forearms lacerated with deep scratches. The coroner surmises that a wolf caused the great wound, yet Hugh wonders... why was there so little blood?