As midwife and healer, Agatha Kyteler is regarded as a witch by her superstitious neighbours in the village of Wefford in Devonshire, yet she has no shortage of callers, from the humblest villein to the most elegant and wealthy in the area. But when Agatha's body is found frozen and mutilated in a hedge one wintry morning, there seem to be no clues as to who could be responsible. Not until a local youth runs away and a hue and cry is raised. Sir Baldwin Furnshill, Keeper of the King's Peace, is not convinced of the youth's guilt, and soon he manages to persuade his close friend Simon Puttock, bailiff of Lydford Castle, to help him continue with the investigation. As they endeavour to find the true culprit, the darker side of the village, with its undercurrents of suspicion, jealousy and disloyalty, emerges. And while Sir Baldwin becomes increasingly distracted by the beauty of a neighbouring merchant's wife, Simon finds himself wondering what happened to the foreigner who visited the normally sleepy area only to disappear shortly after Agatha's death, riding down towards the moors ...
موضوع (اسم عام یاعبارت اسمی عام)
موضوع مستند نشده
Furnshill, Baldwin, Sir (Fictitious character), Fiction.
موضوع مستند نشده
Murder-- England-- Investigation, Fiction.
موضوع مستند نشده
Puttock, Simon (Fictitious character), Fiction.
موضوع مستند نشده
Furnshill, Baldwin, Sir (Fictitious character)
موضوع مستند نشده
Murder-- Investigation.
موضوع مستند نشده
Puttock, Simon (Fictitious character)
نام جغرافیایی به منزله موضوع
موضوع مستند نشده
Great Britain, History, Edward II, 1307-1327, Fiction.
موضوع مستند نشده
West Country (England), History, Fiction.
موضوع مستند نشده
England, West Country.
موضوع مستند نشده
England.
موضوع مستند نشده
Great Britain.
بدون عنوان
0
بدون عنوان
0
بدون عنوان
7
بدون عنوان
7
بدون عنوان
7
رده بندی ديویی
شماره
823/
.
914
ويراست
22
رده بندی کنگره
شماره رده
PZ4
.
J4365
نشانه اثر
Mer
2005
نام شخص به منزله سر شناسه - (مسئولیت معنوی درجه اول )