Someone is killing off the clerks at the Chancery of the Green Wax; someone has stolen a
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fortune in silver from the Crown, committing murder at the same time. In addition, there
a crucifix that bleeds; and the Bishop is thinking of transferring Brother Athelstan to
Oxford. Thus, Paul Harding presents us with the “puzzles and problems” of this episode
involving our venerable Dominican friar. In “The Assassin's Riddle,” it takes all the
intellectual powers and cunning of Athelstan and the King's Coroner Sir John Cranston to
solve this case. But who better
than Brother Athelstan, parish priest and secretarius to Cranston! Of course, knowning
that Athelstan is involved means that the entire parish of St. Erconwald's is also involved,
one way or another, for better or worse!
The review of this Book prepared by Bill Hobbs