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First UK edition with a full 1 to 10 number sequence indicating a first printing. Price still on dustjacket. “As night sets in, Chaucer’s weary pilgrims find themselves in a Kent copse, rumoured to be haunted. Huddling round the fire, trying to ignore screeches of owls and other, more frightening sounds, they persuade the Clerk of Oxford to tell a ghostly tale of love and death that will further chill their blood… It’s 1381 and Beatrice Arrowner is on her way to Ravenscroft Castle. It’s May Day and Beatrice is to share in the feasting with the clerk, Ralph Mortimer – whom she’s to marry next month. But sinister events have cast a cloud over the festivities with the horrible murder of a castle maid and the local miller’s son had disappeared. So when Goodman Winthrop, who’s staying at Ravenscroft, is also found murdered, it seems that the evil spirits which haung the Midnight Tower are doing their worst…” IN STOCK FOR IMMEDIATE DESPATCH