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MURDER ON GOOD FRIDAY.
Edition: First printing.
Nashville, TN: Cumberland House Publishing. (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel. When a child is found murdered in a field, with his body marked in imitation of the crucifixion of Christ, Lord Godwin, ex-Crusader and Bailiff of Hexham, in the service of the Archbishop of Canterbury, is summoned to the scene. . . "Soon a rumor begins to spread that the Jews had murdered young Albert, and a mob seizes all the Jews in Hexham, an extended family of nine. Godwin's first task is to prevent the Jews' murder by the mob, his second to find the person guilty of the horrible murder." INSCRIBED on the title page. Map, glossay. 311 pp plus author's note. ISBN: 1-581821883.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 76710More details Price: $28.50 -
DAUGHTERS OF SUMMER: A Lord Godwin Novel.
Edition: First printing.
Nashville, TN: Cumberland House Publishing. (2003) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's second medieval mystery featuring Lord Godwin, ex-Crusader and Bailiff of Hexham, in the service of the Archbishop of Canterbury. In the late summer of 1221, just as the fair is beginning, a wealthy merchant has been found, poisoned. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. Map. Excerpt from the first book in the series. 204 pp. ISBN: 1-581823401.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 76711More details Price: $28.50 -
FALCONER'S CRUSADE.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1995) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first mystery novel, set in 1264 Oxford and introducing Regent Master William Falconer of Aristotle College, Oxford University, who calls himself a "deductionist." It is a time of turmoil with Prince Edward, King Henry III's son, being wooed by robber barons, but are the slaying of a servant girl in Oxford and the murders of three students related? 190 pp. ISBN: 0-312117841.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 78487More details Price: $21.50 -
VIRGIN IN THE ICE: The Sixth Chronicle of Brother Cadfael .
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York: William H. Morrow, 1983. dj. Hardcover - The sixth novel in the Brother Cadfael series, set in Shrewsbury, England in 1139 A.D.. Map. 220 pp. ISBN: 0-688016723.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (creasing on flaps of dj)
Book ID: 82011More details Price: $28.50 -
THE POTTER'S FIELD: The Seventeenth Chronicle of Brother Cadfael.
Edition: First printing.
London: Headline, (1989) dj. Hardcover first edition - True first edition of this seventeenth Chronicle of Brother Cadfael, set in Shrewsbury in 1143, where a body of a young woman is found in a field known as 'Potter's Field.' 248 pp, Illustrated map endpapers. ISBN: 0-747201593.
Condition: Very good in a fine dustjacket (rather severe browning to pages, as is common for this title, over-opened at title page.)
Book ID: 84962More details Price: $25.00 -
THE HERETIC'S APPRENTICE: The Sixteenth Chronicle of Brother Cadfael.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Mysterious Press, 1990. dj. Hardcover first edition - A Medieval Whodunit. The true first edition of the 16th chronicle of Brother Cadfael, set in Shrewsbury in 1143. 279 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-74720103x.
Condition: Very good in a fine dustjacket (rather severe browning to pages, as is common for this title)
Book ID: 84963More details Price: $20.00 -
BROTHER CADFAEL'S PENANCE: The Twentieth Chronicle of Brother Cadfael
Edition: First printing.
London: Headline (Hodder), (1994) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring Brother Cadfael, of the Benedictine Abbey of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, at Shrewsbury - set in 12th century England . 276 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-747211841.
Condition: Near fine in fine dust jacket (usual toning to the pages) .
Book ID: 85164More details Price: $21.50 -
THE SUMMER OF THE DANES: The Eighteenth Chronicle of Brother Cadfael
Edition: Paperback.
London: Headline (Hodder), (1991) dj. Hardcover first edition - A mystery set in 12th century England, An envoy from the Bishop of Litchfield has come to the Benedictine Abbey of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, at Shrewsbury to request that Brother Cadfael accompany him on a trip to Wales as an interpretor. 280 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-747203334.
Condition: Near fine in fine dust jacket (usual toning to the pages) .
Book ID: 85165More details Price: $21.50 -
THE HOLY THIEF: The Nineteenth Chronicle of Brother Cadfael
Edition: Paperback.
London: Headline (Hodder), (1991) dj. Hardcover first edition - A mystery set in 12th century England, Befpre the Earl of Essex succumbs to a poisoned arrow, the abbey of Ramsay is restored to the Benedictines - but in such a sorry state that a call for help goes out the all the houses. 285 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-747206864.
Condition: Near fine in fine dust jacket (usual toning to the pages) .
Book ID: 85166More details Price: $21.50