by Alan Gordon - (14 Jul 2008 - 00:00)
BookMoneylenderToulouse :
This is about the 6th in the jester series by Alan Gordon, and one of the best. In this novel, Theophilus and Claudia are dispatched to Toulouse to depose the local bishop, who has been antithetical to the Fools' Guild. On arrival they find the bishop in a verbal altercation with a local moneylender. The following morning the moneylender is found murdered, face down in a tanner's pit with a hole in his skull.
Theophilus is drawn into the murder investigation by the bishop's assistant, and soon finds himself embroiled in a local power struggle between the Count of Toulouse and a cartel of local merchants.
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by Alan Gordon - (03 May 2008 - 22:25)
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The Jester series, set in the early 13th century.
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The Lark's Lament
by Alan Gordon - (05 Jul 2007 - 18:12)
BookLarksLament :
Title - booktitle The Lark's Lament
Author - author Alan Gordon
Category - fiction
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Thirteenth Night
by Alan Gordon - (24 Mar 2005 - 03:53)
BookThirteenthNight :
Title - booktitle Thirteenth Night
Author - author Alan Gordon
Category - fiction
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This is the first in a series of novels by Alan Gordon. The series is set in the 13th century with the premise that there is a Fool's guild whose hidden purpose is to manipulate politics so as to avoid the worst catastrophes and to generally steer events away from war and toward good sense. The series is well written and has a 'realistic' feel despite the odd-sounding premise.
This first novel in the series is, not a re-telling, but an extension, 20 years later, of the Twelfth Night story brother and sister shipwrecked, brother disguised as woman, prince falls in love with, sister shows up and takes brother's place, thus avoiding great misunderstanding .
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Widow of Jerusalem
by Alan Gordon - (06 Sep 2003 - 07:19)
BookWidowJerusalem :
Title - booktitle Widow of Jerusalem
Author - author Alan Gordon
Category - fiction
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