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Falconer and the Great Beast
by Ian Morson
Book 5 in the William Falconer Medieval Mysteries series.
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Oxford, 1268. A Mongol delegation arrives seeking an audience with Henry III, unsettling a town already fascinated by the king’s elephant and suspicious of strangers. Falconer is appointed to receive the envoys, but negotiations collapse after their leader, Chimbai, stages an apparent resurrection and is then killed by an arrow.
A mutilated friar appears to confirm accusations of ritual violence against the visitors. Falconer rejects the easy explanation and examines the embassy, royal agents and Oxford’s prejudices, uncovering a plot hidden behind staged wonders and political fear.
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