1. Satan in St Mary’s
1284 and Edward I is battling a traitorous movement founded by the late Simon de Montfort, the rebel who lost his life at the Battle of Evesham in 1258. The Pentangle, the movement's underground society whose members are known to practice the black arts, is thought…
2. Crown in Darkness
1286 and on a storm-ridden night King Alexander III of Scotland is riding across the Firth of Forth to meet his beautiful French bride Yolande. He never reaches his final destination as his horse mysteriously slips, sending them both crashing to their death on cruel rocks.…
3. Spy in Chancery
Edward I of England and Philip IV of France are at war. Philip, by devious means, has managed to seize control of the English duchy of Aquitaine in France, and is now determined to crush Edward. King Edward suspects that his enemy is being aided by…
4. The Angel of Death
In 1299, Edward I summons a great assembly to St Paul’s Cathedral as conflict deepens between the crown and the Church over taxation. During Mass, Walter de Montfort, chosen to challenge the king’s demands, dies suddenly and violently before the gathered political and ecclesiastical elite. The…
5. The Prince of Darkness
It is 1301 and a fragile peace exists between Edward of England and Philip IV of France. In the fetid alleys and slums of London and Paris it is a different matter. Here the secret agents of both countries still fight their own, silent, deadly battles.…
6. Murder Wears a Cowl
London, 1302. A killer is murdering prostitutes by cutting their throats, and the same method is used against Lady Somerville of the Sisters of St Martha. When Father Benedict then dies in suspicious circumstances, the crown sends Hugh Corbett to determine whether the deaths are connected…
7. The Assassin in the Greenwood
In 1302, Robin of Locksley has returned to outlaw life in Sherwood Forest, where resistance to royal authority culminates in the massacre of tax collectors and the murder of Sir Eustace Vechey, one of Nottingham’s sheriffs. The violence threatens to become more than local disorder, and…
8. The Song of a Dark Angel
November 1302, and Sir Hugh Corbett, Edward I's Keeper of the Secret Seal, together with his manservant, Ranulf, and messenger, Maltote, are sent to Mortlake Manor on the Norfolk coast to confront an evil rarely seen before. A man's headless corpse, its head impaled on a…
9. Satan’s Fire
1303 and the Old Man of the Mountain remembers back to when he nearly killed Edward I thirty years before. He now decides to release an imprisoned leper knight to avenge old grievances and take the King's life. A few months later two nuns are returning…
10. The Devil’s Hunt
The golden summer of 1303 and Oxford is plunged into chaos. The severed heads of beggars have been tied by their hair to the trees in woods outside the city. John Copsale, the Regent of Sparrow Hall, has been found dead in his bed and it…
11. The Demon Archer
The death of Lord Henry Fitzalan on the feast of St Matthew, 1303, is a matter widely reported but little mourned. Infamous for his lecherous tendencies, his midnight trysts with a coven of witches and his boundless self-interest, he was a man of few friends. So…
12. The Treason of the Ghosts
Hugh Corbett returns to the Suffolk village of Melford after the son of a man executed for a series of murders claims that his father was wrongly condemned. The accusation becomes urgent when another killing follows the same pattern, suggesting that the original murderer may have…
13. Corpse Candle
The brothers of the abbey of St Martin's-in-the-Marsh pay little heed to the tales of robber baron Sir Geoffrey Mandeville's ghost galloping through the Lincolnshire fens with a retinue of ghastly horseman. They may hear the shrill blast of a hunting horn, or see the corpse…
14. The Magician’s Death
The monk and scholar Roger Bacon claimed to have seen many marvels of nature and science and concealed these in a book written in an unbreakable code. Sir Hugh Corbett has been instructed to organise agents in Paris to steal this Book of Secrets. They do…
15. The Waxman Murders
In 1300 an English vessel known as the Waxman is captured by ships of the Hanseatic League while carrying a valuable collection of sea charts called the Carta Mysteriosa. Three years later, a Hanseatic representative, Wilhelm von Paulents, arrives in England amid rumours that he now…
17. The Mysterium
London, February 1304. Walter Evesham, former Chief Justice of the King’s Bench, has fallen from power after accusations of bribery and corruption and taken sanctuary at the Abbey of Sion. When he is found murdered in his cell, rumours immediately revive the name of the Mysterium,…
18. Dark Serpent
After his recent unveiling of a devious assassin, Sir Hugh Corbett has returned to service as the Keeper of the Secret Seal, begrudgingly admitting that his appetite for adventure has once again been whetted. Summoned to meet the King to be congratulated on their work together,…
19. Devil’s Wolf
England, 1311. In the dark of the North the devil lies in wait... in the gripping nineteenth mystery in the Hugh Corbett series.1296: King Edward I has led his army to Scotland, determined to take the country under his crown. But the fierce Scots have no…
20. Death’s Dark Valley
1311. Murder and mayhem prowl the highways and coffin paths of Medieval England . . . Hugh Corbett returns in in in the depths of the Welsh march, the old king's former bodyguards protect his secret relics and watch over a mysterious prisoner who is kept…
21. Hymn to Murder
Hugh Corbett returns in in in the lonely wasteland of Dartmoor. Spring, 1312. At Malmaison Manor, Lord Simon is concealing a dark secret - one he arrogantly assumes will never catch up with him. But someone knows about the crime he committed and they've found a…
22. Mother Midnight
In 1312 Hugh Corbett returns to Westminster to find Edward II fleeing baronial anger over Peter Gaveston and a royal clerk poisoned inside a locked chamber. The enquiry soon extends to the convent of Saint Sulpice, where young novices have disappeared. Corbett discovers that the deaths…
23. Realm of Darkness
In the spring of 1312 Edward II remains absorbed by Peter Gaveston while Queen Isabella prepares to give birth. Her father, Philip IV of France, sends his master of secrets Amaury de Craon to influence events in England. Hugh Corbett is ordered to watch the French…
24. Banners of Hell
In the summer of 1312 the killing of Peter Gaveston, favourite of Edward II, deepens the conflict between the king and the English barons. Hugh Corbett travels to the Dominican priory at Blackfriars, where Gaveston’s body awaits burial, and finds the religious house already disturbed by…
25. Immortal Murder
In May 1313 Edward II and Queen Isabella travel to France to meet her father, Philip IV. Attacks on the queen culminate at Poissy, where her pavilion is set alight and she narrowly escapes. Hugh Corbett is ordered to discover who wants Isabella dead before the…