Murder Most Holy

Name: Murder Most Holy
Rating: 4.6 (2146 reviews)

by Paul Doherty Book 3 in the Brother Athelstan Mysteries series.

First published 1992

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London, 1379. Sir John Cranston is challenged by Signor Gian Galeazzo, lord of an Italian manor where men have repeatedly been found dead inside a locked scarlet chamber. The bodies carry no obvious wounds or traces of poison, no secret entrance can be found and every victim has died with an expression of extreme terror.

Cranston wagers that he can solve the mystery within two weeks and turns to Brother Athelstan for help. Their investigation must reconstruct events far from London while testing every apparently impossible feature of the room. Reputation and money depend on the answer, but the deeper problem is discovering how a carefully staged supernatural terror has been used to conceal a human method of murder.