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Title: The Demon Archer: A Medieval Mystery Featuring Hugh Corbett by P. C. Doherty ISBN: 0-312-27287-1 Publisher: St. Martin's Minotaur Pub. Date: March, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Do Not read the review by Andrew Hoang
Comment: ..........if you want to read this book. He gives away the ending in his review.
Rating: 5
Summary: a great mystery
Comment: This was a great mystery book. It crime seemed so small at first, but Doherty makes it blow up into a huge network of lies and treachery. He thinks of everything and you can never figure out the end without reading it for yourself it is truly a great story.
It all starts when the outlaw called the Owlman decides to harass and embarrass Lord Henry on his hunting trip on his way there he trips on something that turns out to be a body of a young woman already starting to decompose, but it looked like she was killed by an arrow to the heart. The Owlman takes her to the gate of St. Hawisia's, (a convent) where the woman could be properly buried. Meanwhile at the hunting sight Lord Henry a man hated by many is waiting in Savernake Dell for the verdures to scare some deer into the clearing. He has heard that his chief verdure, Robert Verlian is missing. Lord Henry has been interested in Verlian's daughter, Alicia. Henry was trying to shoot the deer that had just run through when someone shot him in the heart. The king of England, King Edward heard about this and sent his clerk of the Secret Seal Hugh Corbett to investigate this death. There where many people that wanted Henry dead, Robert Verlian was the main suspect and was chased to a church in the forest where he claimed sanctuary. The others were Henries brother Sir. William, his half sister Lady Madeleine the prioress of St. Hawisia's, Verlian's daughter, the Owlman, St. Cosmas the Franciscan monk who was the head of St. Oswald's-in-the-Trees, and possibly a hermit named Odo. Corbett and his manservant Ranulf as they discovered more and more found a large network of treachery around Lord Henry. The mysterious killer took the life of an Italian physician who knew too much, Verlian, and tried to get Corbett as well. In the end Corbett found out that it was Lady Madeleine. Corbett told King Edward who used to get the French to do whatever he wanted.
This is the first time I have ready a book by Doherty, but it won't be the last. I really enjoyed this book and recommend it to every one else.
Rating: 5
Summary: a wonderfully crafted mystery novel
Comment: Hugh Corbett, the Keeper of the King's Secret Seal (Edward 1) has miraculously survived the attempt on his life in the "The Devil's Hunt" and is back to unravel another mystery that features murder and political intrigue in 14th century England. And in this latest Corbett adventure, "The Demon Archer", he gets to cross swords again with his french counterpart and arch enemy, Amaury Craon, as he delves into which one of the many people that hated Lord Henry Fitzalan killed him.
Lord Henry is a man much hated and feared. He is hard and unscrupulous, a lecher, and it is firmly believed that he practises the black arts. His younger brother chafes at having to be at Lord Henry's beck and call; his half sister, the Lady Madeline, who is the prioress of St. Hawisia, considers him to be a thorn at her side, and his chief verderer, Robert Verlain, resents Lord Henry's relentless pursuit of Verlain's daughter. Lord Henry also seems to be the target of a mysterious outlaw's spleen: the Owlman has been sending Lord Henry several threatening and cryptic messages.
The novel opens with the Owlman happily contemplating all the mischief and embarrassment he is about to cause Lord Henry by disrupting the hunting party Lord Henry is hosting. But as he makes his way through Ashdown Forest, the Owlman stumbles across the partially buried and already decomposing body of a young woman who had been killed by an arrow to the neck. The Owlman decides to retrieve the body and deposit it at the gates of the St. Hawisia's. In the meantime the hunting party has assembled at the forest. The party consists mainly of Sir William Fitzalan, Lord Henry's angry and resentful younger brother, and members of the French delegation that have assembled in England in order to negotiate a marriage settlement between Prince Edward of England and Princess Isabella of France. Amaury Craon just happens to be a member of said delegation, and it soon becomes obvious that Lord Henry has some kind of hold over Craon. Ashdown Forest seems to be full of people that hate Lord Henry, and it isn't too long before he is shot dead by an arrow to the chest.
The king send Corbett to investigate Lord Henry's murder. Edward 1 couldn't really care less who killed Lord Henry but he is anxious to know why the French specifically requested that Lord Henry be part of the marriage negotiations. Could Lord Henry be in France's pocket? And could the French have killed him because he was a liability? If Corbett can find proof of France's guilt, then the marriage treaty and the uneasy peace between France and England will be rescinded, and Edward 1 really and truly wants for the marriage treaty to come to nothing!
Which one of the many people that hated Lord Henry killed him? Who is the mysterious Owlman and why does he hate Lord Henry? Is the murder of the young woman that the Owlman found somehow tied to that of Lord Henry's, and if so how? And where and how does Craon figure into everything? Corbett has much to delve into, as he tries to unravel the many skeins that tie this mystery together. This is a well written and tautly crafted mystery novel, full of twist and turns and red herrings that is sure to keep the avid mystery reader totally engrossed. And Paul Doherty has also filled the novel with enough historical deatail to give the reader a glimpse of life in 14th century England, and another perspective of the political goings on of the time. The Hugh Corbett medieval mystery novels by Paul Doherty is one of the better historical mystery series around, and this latest installment in the series, "The Demon Archer" lives up to the expecations raised in the previous novels. A thoroughly enjoyable and engrossing book.
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Title: The Assassin in the Greenwood by P. C. Doherty ISBN: 0312115547 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: September, 1994 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Satan in St. Mary's by P. C. Doherty ISBN: 0312000596 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: February, 1987 List Price(USD): $1.00 |
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