Bibliograph

A dead man's secret, Simon Beaufort

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A dead man's secret, Simon Beaufort

Language

eng

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no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

A dead man's secret

Oclc number

648097028

Responsibility statement

Simon Beaufort

Series statement

A Sir Geoffrey Mappestone series

Summary

Henry, the English king, orders the former crusader knight to southern Wales in the fall of 1103 to deliver letters to local dignitaries and assess rival church leaders. Henry, whom Sir Geoffrey considers devious and dangerous, also charges him with discovering the secret held by a Norman knight who died seven years earlier in the Welsh port of Kermerdyn. Before the start of the journey, someone fatally stabs the scribe who wrote the letters. Sir Geoffrey, an honorable man, must put up with disagreeable traveling companions, whose duplicity and self-interest he finds difficult to stomach - and whose machinations leave men wounded, ill, and poisoned

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