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Philip Gooden

23 fiction

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Early Medieval Norse Exploration of the North Atlantic Arthurian Britain Elizabethan Travelling Players and Theatre Black Death Anglo-Saxon England Medieval England after the Norman Conquest First Crusade Post-Roman Britain Essex Rebellion

Historical fiction

Historical fiction series by Philip Gooden (4 series)

Medieval Murderers in Order

by various authors 10 books 3.9

The Medieval Murderers books are collaborative historical-mystery anthologies in which a shared relic, manuscript, legend, place or moral theme links separate crimes across centuries. Each contributor writes an episode using characters from an established series or a new historical setting, so the central object accumulates competing meanings as…

The Tainted Relic

3.8

Sword of Shame

3.9

House of Shadows

3.8

The Lost Prophecies

4.3

King Arthur’s Bones

4.1

The Sacred Stone

4.2

Hill of Bones

3.7

The First Murder

3.7

The False Virgin

4.0

The Deadliest Sin

4.0

Geoffrey Chaucer Mysteries in Order

by Philip Gooden 4 books 4.1

The Geoffrey Chaucer Mysteries place the poet before the completion of The Canterbury Tales, when royal service carried him through London, Aquitaine, Florence and the ports of southern England. Chaucer acts as a household officer, diplomatic messenger and reluctant investigator while England’s war with France depends on uncertain…

Chaucer and the House of Fame

4.0

Chaucer and the Legend of Good Women

4.2

Chaucer and the Doctor of Physic

4.2

Chaucer and the Vintry Ward Death

4.0

Nick Revill in Order

by Philip Gooden 6 books 3.7

The Nick Revill mysteries follow a provincial actor who joins the Chamberlain’s Men near the end of Elizabeth I’s reign. Each investigation mirrors a Shakespeare play being written or performed, placing murder inside rehearsal rooms, inns, country houses, court entertainments and the commercial theatre of London. The sequence…

Sleep of Death

3.5

Death of Kings

The Pale Companion

Alms for Oblivion

3.9

Mask of Night

4.0

An Honourable Murderer

4.2

Tom Ansell Cathedral Mysteries in Order

by Philip Gooden 3 books

The Tom Ansell Cathedral Mysteries follow a young London solicitor and his wife Helen through Salisbury, Durham, Cambridge and Ely in the mid-1870s. Legal instructions involving manuscripts, wills and family property draw them into murders hidden behind cathedral respectability, private houses and the authority of established professional men.…