The Knight's Riddle
Published on 17. April 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
244 pages
978-1-64599-546-3 (ISBN)
Description
When a disheveled young woman walks into King Arthur's court and demands justice, declaring she has been brutally violated by a knight of the Round Table, Arthur vows that the culprit will be tracked down and punished. But young Gildas of Cornwall, now squire to the king's nephew Sir Gareth, has his own problems: His beloved Lady Rosemounde has been betrothed by her father to another knight. When Rosemounde's new fiancé turns out to be the knight accused of the vicious crime, Rosemounde begs Gildas for help. He must enlist the aid of his old mentor, Merlin, in order to prove the innocence of the man he feels has stolen the affections of his only love.
Queen Guinevere, trying to head off a rush to judgment, secures a promise from the king to let her be arbiter in the accused knight's case and sends the young man on a quest to discover what women most desire. The Knight's Riddle is a fast-paced mystery in King Arthur's mythic court of Camelot, set (like the original Arthurian romances) in the high Middle Ages, and narrated by the young squire Gildas, whose knightly ambitions revolve solely around his love of the beautiful Rosemounde.
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Language
English
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
350 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-64599-546-3 (9781645995463)
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Jay Ruud is a retired professor of English at the University of Central Arkansas with a Ph.D. in Medieval Literature, now devoting much of his time to fiction writing. He has retold the traditional legend of King Arthur for modern readers as a series of Merlin Mysteries: Fatal Feast, The Knight's Riddle, Lost in the Quagmire, The Bleak and Empty Sea, The Knight of the Cart, and To the Great Deep. He's also written scholarly books, including an Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature (2006), A Critical Companion to Dante (2008), and A Critical Companion to Tolkien (2011), as well as the first full-length study of Chaucer's short poems, "Many a Song and Many a Lecherous Lay": Tradition and Individuality in Chaucer Lyric Poetry (1992), a book that was reissued by Routledge in October 2019 after 27 years. He is the author of the Robin Hood Mystery series, Sleuth of Sherwood (June 2022), Ghoul of Sherwood (December 2022), an Eric Hoffer Book Award Finalist, and book 3, Treasure of Sherwood, which will be published by Encircle in June 2024. For the latest news, visit jayruud.com, and you can follow Jay on Facebook @jay.ruud.author, and on Instagram @GildasOfCornwall.