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Death and the Chapman by Kate Sedley
bookshelves: hardback, paper-read, one-penny-wonder, medieval5c-16c, historical-fiction, published-1991, first-in-series, newtome-author, autumn-2015, under-1000-ratings, mystery-thriller, series, plantagenet-1154-1485
Read from January 28 to October 25, 2015
Description: In fifteenth-century England, a nineteen-year-old itinerant peddler named Roger the Chapman investigates the disappearance of an alderman's son and embarks on an adventure that takes him from country roads to grand mansions.
Opening: In this year of our Lord 1522 I am an old man. I've lived through the reigns of five kings; six, if you count young Edward. By my reckoning, I'm three score years and ten, the age, so the Bible tells us, which is man's allotted span on earth, and when my time comes, I shan't be sorry to go.
Written with a lot of love for her subject, Sedley's enthusiasm cannot help but make that a two-way thing. Bring on the next.
Opening: In this year of our Lord 1522 I am an old man. I've lived through the reigns of five kings; six, if you count young Edward. By my reckoning, I'm three score years and ten, the age, so the Bible tells us, which is man's allotted span on earth, and when my time comes, I shan't be sorry to go.
Written with a lot of love for her subject, Sedley's enthusiasm cannot help but make that a two-way thing. Bring on the next.
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