The Stallions of Woodstock: Volume VI of the Domesday Books (Domesday Books Series/Edward Marston, Vol 6) - Hardcover

Marston, Edward

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312200218 ISBN 13: 9780312200213

Publisher: Minotaur Books, 1998

Synopsis

The seventh volume of the popular Domesday books, set in the time of England's William the Conqueror, follows Ralph Delchard and Gervase Bret to Oxford, where they become involved in the investigation surrounding a rider's murder during a horse race.

About this title

About the Author:

Edward Marston is the author of five previous Domesday novels and an acclaimed series of Elizabethan mysteries featuring Nicholas Bracewell, for which he has been an Edgar Award finalist. He lives in England.

From Publishers Weekly:

The sixth installment of Marston's solidly written Domesday series (The Serpents of Harbledown, etc.) is every bit as entertaining as its forerunners. Gervase Bret and Ralph Delchard, commissioners to King William the Conqueror, are sent to Oxford, England, to settle a land dispute and soon find themselves embroiled in a murder investigation. Three Norman lords, Wymarc, Milo Crispin and Bertrand Gamberell, along with a Saxon, bet against each other in a horse race that turns deadly when Gamberell's jockey is murdered. Oxford sheriff Robert d'Oilly brutally arrests a suspect, but Bret and Delchard are skeptical of his rush to justice and decide to unravel the complex situation. Further distress follows as Wymarc's sister, a former choir singer under the deceptive Chaplain Arnulf, mysteriously commits suicide. D'Oilly fumes and fusses over the upcoming visit of a prominent Norman bishop and Oxford's apparent disorder, while Arnulf moves in on his new protege and the murderer runs loose. Despite the seeming infallibility of Bret and Delchard, the mystery, as the others in this readable series, brings to life the turmoil of an England torn between Norman and Saxon, where the conquered's underlying resentment of the conquerors often bubbled over into murder.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Minotaur Books
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0312200218
• ISBN 13: 9780312200213
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288