Minotaur Books
October 2011
On Sale: October 11, 2011
Featuring: Crispin Guest; Geoffrey Chaucer
304 pages ISBN: 0312621639 EAN: 9780312621636 Hardcover Add to Wish List
Disgraced knight Crispin Guest gets himself into some
serious trouble in London and as a result is forced to
accept an assignment far out of town. The Archbishop of
Canterbury has specifically requested Guest to investigate a
threat against the bones of saint and martyr Thomas a
Beckett, which are on display in the cathedral in
Canterbury. The archbishop has received letters threatening
the safety of the artifacts, and he wants Guest to protect
them and uncover whoever is after them.
When he arrives at Canterbury, Guest is accosted by an old
acquaintance from court – one Geoffrey Chaucer – and is
surrounded by a group in town on a pilgrimage. Trapped
amongst the pilgrims (who were, quite possibly, the model
for Chaucer’s famous story cycle), looking for a murderer, a
hidden heretic and a solution to the riddle that will allow
him to go back home, Crispin Guest finds his considerable
wit and intellect taxed to its very limit.
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