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The Magician's Death
Paul Doherty
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Description for The Magician's Death
Paperback. Set in a snow-beseiged castle where secret knowledge is the prize and human life the price to be paid, THE MAGICIAN'S DEATH is the fourteenth in the stunning Hugh Corbett series Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FF; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 179 x 113 x 24. Weight in Grams: 212.
The monk and scholar Roger Bacon claimed to have seen many marvels of nature and science and concealed these in a book written in an unbreakable code. Sir Hugh Corbett has been instructed to organise agents in Paris to steal this Book of Secrets. They do so but pay a violent price and the French King Philip IV now wishes a meeting between the scholars of England and France to discuss breaking the code. Edward I has no choice but to allow the meeting to take place at Corfe Castle, which becomes a place of murder and mayhem. Young women ... Read more
The monk and scholar Roger Bacon claimed to have seen many marvels of nature and science and concealed these in a book written in an unbreakable code. Sir Hugh Corbett has been instructed to organise agents in Paris to steal this Book of Secrets. They do so but pay a violent price and the French King Philip IV now wishes a meeting between the scholars of England and France to discuss breaking the code. Edward I has no choice but to allow the meeting to take place at Corfe Castle, which becomes a place of murder and mayhem. Young women ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Headline Publishing Group United Kingdom
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
Weight
212g
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780755307753
SKU
V9780755307753
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Ref
99-99
About Paul Doherty
Paul Doherty was born in Middlesbrough. He studied History at Liverpool and Oxford Universities and obtained a doctorate for his thesis on Edward II and Queen Isabella. He is now headmaster of a school in north-east London and lives with his family in Essex.
Reviews for The Magician's Death
Praise for Paul Doherty's other novels: 'I really like these medieval whodunnits
Bookseller
A romping good read
Time Out
Historically informative, excellently plotted and, as ever, superbly entertaining
CADS 20
This rich tale ... seeps authenticity and is written with wonderfully efficient style. A gem of an historical thriller
Huddersfield Daily Examiner
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Bookseller
A romping good read
Time Out
Historically informative, excellently plotted and, as ever, superbly entertaining
CADS 20
This rich tale ... seeps authenticity and is written with wonderfully efficient style. A gem of an historical thriller
Huddersfield Daily Examiner
... Read more