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Bampton (Oxfordshire, England) Fiction Black Death England Fiction Black Death Fiction De Singleton, Hugh (Fictitious character) Fiction Great Britain History 14th century Fiction Murder Investigation Fiction Plague England Fiction Plague Fiction Quarantine Fiction Surgeons England Oxfordshire FictionStarr, Melvin R.
Summary: Hugh de Singleton, surgeon in the medieval village of Bampton, is called in when a valuable stolen book is turns up alongside the drowned body of a poor Oxford scholar. The investigation leads him to Kate, the only woman who has tempted him to leave bachelor life behind.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Monarch 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STAWesterson, Jeri.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WESWalters, Minette
Summary: When the Black Death enters England through the port of Melcombe in Dorseteshire in June 1348, no one knows what manner of sickness it is or how it spreads and kills so quickly. The Church cites God as the cause, and religious fear grips the people as they come to believe that the plague is a punishment for wickedness. But Lady Anne of Develish has her own ideas. Educated by nuns, Anne is a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Walters 2018Harding, Paul
Summary: It is 1376, and the famed Black Prince has died of a terrible rotting sickness, closely followed by his father, King Edward III. The crown of England is now left in the hands of a mere boy—the future Richard II—and the great nobles have gathered like hungry wolves around the empty throne. A terrible power struggle threatens the country, and one of London's powerful merchant princes is foully...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Morrow, c1991. 1992
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Summary: Witnessing the apparent suicide of a man who fell from the London Bridge, Crispin Guest investigates suspicions that the victim was actually murdered and discovers links to a powerful religious artifact before his efforts are complicated by the arrival of his friend, Geoffrey Chaucer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WESSykes, S. D.
Summary: "In the new Somershill Manor Mystery, Oswald de Lacy brings his family to a secluded island castle to escape the Black Death, but soon a murder within the household proves that even the strongest fortresses aren't free from terror in fourteenth-century England. When the Black Death reappears in England in 1361, Oswald de Lacy knows that the safest place for his wife and young son is the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Crime 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SYKWalters, Minette
Summary: "As the year 1349 approaches, the Black Death continues its devastating course across England. In Dorseteshire, the quarantined people of Develish question whether they are the only survivors. Guided by their beloved young mistress, Lady Anne, they wait, knowing that when their dwindling stores are finally gone they will have no choice but to leave. But where will they find safety in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MIRA 2019
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Summary: Hugh is called in when the body of Alan, beadle of the medieval manor of Bampton, is discovered with his throat torn out, and his face, hands, and forearms lacerated with deep scratches. The coroner surmises that a wolf caused the great wound, yet Hugh wonders ... why was there so little blood?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Monarch Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STAFollett, Ken.
Summary: Two centuries after the building of the elaborate Gothic cathedral in Kingsbridge, its prior finds himself at the center of a web of ambition and revenge that places the city at a crossroad of commerce, medicine, and architecture.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2008
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Summary: Another slice of medieval skullduggery from the surgeon-turned-sleuth Master Hugh, surgeon and bailiff, is asked to provide a sleeping potion for Sir Henry Burley, a friend and guest of Lord Gilbert at Bampton Castle. Sir Henry--with his current wife, a daughter by a first wife, two knights, two squires, and assorted servants--has outstayed his welcome at Bampton. The next morning, Sir Henry is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lion Fiction 2013
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Summary: It is the autumn of 1367. Master Hugh is enjoying the peaceful life of Bampton when a badly beaten man is found under the porch of St. Andrew's Chapel. The dying man is a chapman--a traveling merchant. Before he is buried in the chapel grounds, an ancient, corroded coin is found in the man's mouth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Monarch Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STAFollett, Ken.
Summary: In the town of Kingsbridge, a Gothic cathedral and the priory are at the center of a web of love and hate, greed and pride, ambition and revenge. Proponents of the old ways fiercely battle those with progressive minds, as the Black Death captures the city.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2007
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Summary: Set in 1322 during the reign of King Edward II Brianna de Beauchamp meets Wolf Mortimer, a man who possesses the Celtic gift of second sight, and is swept into an adventure that entangles her in the intrigues between Edward II, his wife, Isabella, and their lovers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2007