by Charles Palliser (Author)
Dr Courtine, an unworldly academic is visiting an old friend in the Cathedral town of Thurchester in the late 1870s. On his first night he is told the story of the town ghost, a legend deeply mired in the medieval intrigues of the Cathedral when two prominent churchmen met their deaths in unexplained circumstances. The story of dark deeds in the ancient close captures Courtine's donnish imagination, and he is also embarking on some amateur sleuthing of his own - attempting to track down an elusive 11th century manuscript to prove his theories about the life of King Alfred. Suitably distracted, Courtine becomes the unwitting witness to a terrible crime committed on his own doorstep ...
Format: Paperback
Pages: 448
Edition: 1st Paperback Printing
Publisher: Phoenix
Published: 06 Jan 2000
ISBN 10: 0753807688
ISBN 13: 9780753807682
Book Overview: By the author of the extraordinary bestseller, The Quincunx The Quincunx was a surprise bestseller in 1989, selling more than 100,000 copies in paperback Charles Palliser returns once again to his Wilkie Collins style of atmospheric recreation in this brilliant new novel This is near faultless story-telling - a one-sitting feast' Scotland on Sunday 'This is, basically, a cracking yarn ... enormously enjoyable ... Wilkie Collins and chums having been effectively buried themselves for so long, it is charming that Palliser should so faithfully unbury them ahgain' Observer 'It is a big, fat murder mystery. It is a perfectly pitched pastiche of Victorian Gothic ... compulsive reading' Evening Standard
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