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The Tapestry of Death
Howard Matthews
Works of: Fiction
The Tapestry of Death.
More medieval mystery for people who laugh.
England 1067: Briston the weaver has been murdered – in a very special way – and it is up to his old friend Wat to avenge his death.
Brother Hermitage will naturally support his companion in the quest, but the young monk worries as the number of suspects keeps rising. He’s never been good with crowds.
When events take a turn for the truly bizarre, Hermitage and Wat find themselves up to their Saxon socks in people who want them dead, people who want one another dead and people who seem to want everyone dead.
They must find a missing maiden, placate a giant killer and reveal the awful secret of the Tapestry of Death before matters are resolved. Resolved largely unsatisfactorily, but then that’s life.
With a monk, tradesmen, priests, Normans and Saxons, The Tapestry of Death should be a solid, traditional medieval who-done-it, but it isn’t. Really, it isn’t.
Authentic and accurate representation of the time? Barely.
Historically informative? Certainly not.
Hilarious and very silly? Now you’re getting warm.
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Other books by Howard Matthews


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 via Derby

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 Garderobe of Death

The Heretics of De’Ath

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