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A first UK edition hardback with a full 1 to 10 number sequence indicating a first printing. Bumped at head of book spine and at bottom tight hand corner of front board, and bottom left hand corner of rear board. Age tanning to pages making them rather brown but still eminently readable. The dust jacket is complete, still shows the price but is showing some slight signs of wear to the extremities.
The nineteenth Chronicle of Brother Cadfael.
SYNOPSIS: “At the height of the hot summer of 1144, the Earl of Essex succumbs to a fatal arrow – but only after a lingering fever during which is officials do their best to save him from hellfire by restoring various properties he has annexed including the abbey of Ramsey. In such a sorry state is the abbey that Abbot Walter sends out a call for help in restoring it to all houses of the Benedictine Order. And so it is that his envoys arrive at the abbey of Saint Peter and Saint Paul at Shrewsbury.
And so the stage is set for Brother Cadfael’s nineteenth case. And before it is solved, to the crime of theft is added a murder…”
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