Buy this book on-line ROBB**, CANDACE: : THE NUN'S TALE - AN OWEN ARCHER MYSTERYLONDON.WILLIAM HEINEMANN,1995. ISBN 0434002402.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn. NFINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,
colour ppictorial artwork,by Maria Macey, illustrated front panel of dw/dj,with blue and b/w lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.However,due to presence of a 12mo book being stored,at some time,next to it,the outer,uncovered edges of the front panel of 8vo book's dw/dj are sunned and slightly faded.
Inescapable but light,superficial scoring+ ondents to both panels of dw/dj.Top edges aged/ toned - as usual/normal,fore-edges less so and therefore brighter,but with a couple
of foxing(?) spots,but still bright and generally clean; contents bright,tight,clean, some light inevitable page-edge toning - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners, appears unread - apart from my own collation. Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain red cloth boards with bright, crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB
+dw/dj,1st edn,xipp+1-354pp [paginated] includes a glossary,a prologue,24 chapters and an epilogue,and an author's note to rear; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,contents list/table with dedication to it's verso,
acknowledgements,double-page b/w map of Owen Archer's York city.Described hard,but fairly and honestly - probably too detailed - but still an acceptable copy of an uncommon title in the series.
Author's 3rd Owen Archer novel,following on from 'The Apothecary Rose' and 'The Lady Chapel.' An uncommon title.
When a young nun collapses and dies of a fever in the town of Beverley,no time is wasted in burying her.The year is 1365,and the plague is an ever-present fear.
But affairs take a strange turn when,a year later,a woman appears claiming to be the nun, saying that she has risen from the dead.And when
murder follows close on her heels,John Thoresby, Archbishop of York,asks his favourite sleuth, Owen Archer to investigate.
Bust training archers for John of Gaunt,Owen is not pleased to be sent off to Leeds and Scarborough to delve into the nun's mysterious absence,and to try to find her co-conspirators - particularly when they keep turning up as corpses.But when he meets geoffrey Chaucer,who has been spying for King Edward,Owen learns that the woman's involvement may stretch as far as the Free companies of soldiers fighting on the continent.
Owen's wife Lucie,the apothecary,is the only person able to win the nun's confidence.Drawn in despite her reservations,concerned by the woman's deep unhappiness,Lucie tries to unravel the nun's troubled revelations to find a clue to the past.But the secrets which finally emerge - and the violence they provoke - will shock the community to its core.
Meticulously researched,authentic and gripping, this third mytery to feature the dashing ex-captain of archers and his apothecary wife conjures up a colourful and violent time of politics and passion.
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