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The Chester Chasuble
Howard Matthews
Works of: Fiction
Howard of Warwick, the No 1 Best Selling author who brought you The Bayeux Embroidery, has fabricated yet another outing for the world’s most medieval detective.At the request of some rather peculiar monks, Brother Hermitage and his companions, Wat and Cwen the weavers, travel to Chester to try and work out who has suffocated a priest with his own chasuble. They’ve even been recommended for this job by some very important people, but of course, it starts to go wrong even before they arrive.
Chester appears to be full of some very strange people and some even stranger religious institutions, all of whom detest one another with fervour. There are Saxon Nobles who have run away from the Normans and townsfolk for whom corruption is what they do best.
Brother Hermitage must find out if the man who got killed is all he seems to be. Then there’s a number of reasons why he could have been killed. And the list of who could have done it is a bit too long, even for Hermitage, who likes a list.
Why does Brother Merle seem so keen on dead people?
Who is the mysterious monk in the tower?
How many Saxons does it take to change a kingdom?
Be warned, Howard of Warwick has history:
“very good indeed, brilliant,” BBC Coventry and Warwick
“5* Hilarious”
“5* Laugh out loud”
“5* Like Pratchett does 1066”
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Other books by Howard Matthews


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 via Derby

The 1066 To Hastings

The 1066 From Normandy

The Hermes Parchment

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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