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The 1066 via Derby
Howard Matthews
Works of: Fiction
The Normans are in town; beware, be careful or be dead…
From multiple Best Selling author Howard of Warwick comes more medieval mystery, but not as we know it.
First, there was medieval fiction, then there was the medieval detective, now the whole business has simply got ridiculous.
And Howard of Warwick must be held to account. Medieval crime comedy didn’t even exist until he started interfering…
An old wise woman of Derby is dead, and Brother Hermitage has been asked to deal with her.
This means she must have been murdered; people only die of murder when Brother Hermitage is in town.
And if she was murdered, who on earth would do that to an old wise woman in her own hovel, for goodness sake?
The Norman soldiers camping just down the road? Quite likely.
The local people who seem to have good reason to hate her? Quite possibly.
Anyone who wanted to steal her ill-gotten gains? Quite feasibly.
Very well, quite a few people would want to kill an old wise woman in her own hovel, Brother Hermitage just has to work out which one. Can’t be hard, surely?
But this is Brother Hermitage, and the characters of Derby are being less than helpful – as well as pretty peculiar.
In The 1066 via Derby Brother Hermitage is once more disappointed by the moral standards of the average 11th Century killer.
Stumbling through a host of conclusions, one of which must be right, surely, and a small host of extra murders just for completeness, Hermitage uncovers crime of a truly despicable nature.
The guilty must face the consequences of their actions and pay the price – but that’s someone else’s business, Hermitage only does investigation.
Comments are consistent:
5* Another Fun Filled Advemture
5* OH MY!
5* And Howard of Warwick has done it again!!!
5* Ha, ha, ha! Aha! Brother Hermitage does it again.
5* Excellent work
5* Please Sir when is the next one coming?
5* Another success
5* Another masterpiece from Howard!
5* Top marks as usual
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What Dead Body?

Not Another Murder

No Murder Here

How Many Monks?

Murder ‘Midst Merriment

Murder Can Be Murder

Return to The Dingle

The Investigator’s Kingdom

The Investigator’s Wedding

The Investigator’s Apprentice

Murder Most Murderous

A Murder of Convenience

A Mayhem of Murderous Monks

The King’s Investigator Part II

The King’s Investigator

The 1066 To Hastings

The 1066 From Normandy

The Hermes Parchment

The Chester Chasuble

The Bayeux Embroidery

A Murder for Brother Hermitage

The Domesday Book II (Still Not That One)

A Murder for Master Wat

Brother Hermitage’s Christmas Gift

A Murder for Mistress Cwen

The Case of The Cantankerous Carcass

The Case of The Curious Corpse

The Case of The Clerical Cadaver

Hermitage, Wat and Some Nuns

Hermitage, Wat and Some Druids: We’re Going On A Murder

The Magna Carta (Or Is It?)

Brother Hermitage in Shorts

Hermitage, Wat and Some Murder or Other

The Domesday Book (No, Not That One)

The Tapestry of Death

The Garderobe of Death

The Heretics of De’Ath

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