The Novice's Tale
Published on 1. November 1993
240 pages
978-1-101-65144-5 (ISBN)
Description
It is the year of Our Lord's grace 1431, and the nuns of England's St. Frideswide sweetly chant their Paternosters behind gracious, trellised walls. But their quiet lives are shattered by the unwelcome visit of the hard-drinking, blaspheming dowager Lady Ermentrude, with her retinue of lusty maids and men, baying hounds, and even a pet monkey in tow. The lady demands wine, a feast, and her niece, the frail and saintly novice Thomasine.
What she gets is her own strange and sudden death.
Sister Frevisse, hosteler of the priory and amateur sleuth, fears murder. The most likely suspect is pious Thomasine . . . but Frevisse alone detects a clever web spun to entangle an innocent nun in the most unholy of passions-and the deadliest of deeds.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
US School Grade: Twelfth Grade and over, Interest Age: From 18 years
Product notice
Windows
File size
0,51 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-101-65144-5 (9781101651445)
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Margaret Frazer | Gail Bacon | Mary P. Kuhfeld
Novice's Tale
Book
08/1992
Jove Books
€24.14
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Person
Margaret Frazer is the author of the Sister Frevisse series (including The Traitor's Tale, The Sempster's Tale, and The Hunter's Tale) and the Joliffe the Player series (including A Play of Heresy, A Play of Piety, and A Play of Treachery). She is a two-time Edgar Award nominee and lives in Minnesota.
