The Song of a Dark Angel (Hugh Corbett Mysteries, Book 8): Murder and treachery abound in this gripping medieval mystery
By (Author) Paul Doherty
Headline Publishing Group
Headline Book Publishing
1st November 1994
29th September 1994
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
Historical fiction
823.914
Paperback
249
Width 111mm, Height 179mm, Spine 18mm
162g
November 1302, and Sir Hugh Corbett, Edward I's Keeper of the Secret Seal, together with his manservant, Ranulf, and messenger, Maltote, are sent to Mortlake Manor on the Norfolk coast to confront an evil rarely seen before. A man's headless corpse, its head impaled on a pole, has been found on a beach and the pretty young wife of a local baker is discovered hanging from a gallows. The scene is set for more gruesome deaths and Corbett soon realises that the icy wastes of Norfolk, where the eerie song of the Dark Angel wind chills those that live in the small villages along the coast, are just as treacherous as the silken intrigue at the royal court or the violence of London's fetid alleyways...
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.