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To Kill or Cure: The Thirteenth Chronicle of Matthew Bartholomew (Matthew Bartholomew Chronicles) by: Susanna Gregory List Price: £7.99 City Travel Guides Price: £5.59 You Save: £2.40 (30%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914 EAN: 9780751538885 ISBN: 0751538884 Label: Sphere Manufacturer: Sphere Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 448 Publication Date: June 05, 2008 Publisher: Sphere Studio: Sphere Sales Rank: 17855 Related Items:
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 Rating:  - Another crackerThis is the 13th in the series. Matthew and Brother Michael continue their crime solving escapades. This time a charlatan 'healer' comes into town and performs some wonderful 'miracles', managing to turn the town against its traditional practitioners, including Matthew Bartholomew and creates self doubt in Bartholomew. Simultaneously, a leading medical practioner is murdered, their are tensions in town over a rent war, with landlords wanting to charge the university more and the university unwilling to pay. An elderly scholar dies. A note claims it was murder. Bartholomew claims it was natural. Could he be wrong? This really is an excellent series. By now Matthew, Brother Michael and the rest of the characters are like old friends ... Read More: Rating:  - More Laurel and Hardy than Dalziel and PascoeI wonder why I persevere with this series, this is the 12th I have read and since the first 4 or five they have been generally disappointing and repetitive. Brother Michael and Matthew Bartholomew are not the Holmes & Watson of 14th Century crime detection, not even the Dalziel & Pascoe, probably more like the Laurel & Hardy. The problem is that while Susanna Gregory knows her history, she has little or no idea how to construct a detective novel. Our heroes keep stumbling and bumbling about accusing everyone in sight of the crime with frequent visits to eating establishments to satisfy Michael's voracious appetite. The squalor, lack of hygiene, Brother William's 'filthy grey habit' and the antics of the incorrigible ... Read More: |
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