‘Is there reason to suspect evil in this?’ I asked.
‘None… but that the man was robust one day and a corpse the next.’
Master Hugh, surgeon and bailiff, has been asked to provide a sleeping potion for Sir Henry Burley, a friend and guest of Lord Gilbert at Bampton Castle, near Oxford. Three days before St John’s Day, in the year of our Lord 1368, Sir Henry went to his bed hale and hearty after enjoying a long evening music, conversation, and dancing in Bampton’s Castle’s hall. The next morn his valet found him cole and dead.
Master Hugh is asked by Lord Gilbert to determine the cause of death – despite shrill accusations from Sir Henry’s grieving widow…
About the author
Mel Starr was born and grew up in Kalamazoo, Michigan. After graduating with a MA in history from Western Michigan University in 1970, he taught history in Michigan public schools for thirty-nine years. Since retiring, he has focused on writing his successful Chronicles of Hugh de Singleton series. Mel and his wife, Susan, have two daughters and eight grandchildren.
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