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      The Riddle of St. Leonard's

      by Candace M. Robb
      Published
      Sep 1997
      Main Genre
      Historical Mystery Hist. Mystery
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      304
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      An Owen Archer Mystery Book 5

      About This Book

      Medieval York is wrapped in a dangerous riddle that only Owen Archer can unfurl.

      The fetid summer heat of 1369 has the citizens of York besieging Owen Archer's apothecary wife, Lucie, for physicks against noxious vapors. But more than pestilence is in the air. Owen is summoned to investigate the theft of rare treasures from St. Leonard's Hospital and the untimely deaths of aging patients.

      What links a brutal robbery, a fatal fire, a lay sister some still call whore, and a homeless urchin who shoots an arrow as straight as Owen himself? Country lore and town gossip lead him deep into the past, toward a killer with a heart blacker than the plague itself...

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      Historical Historical Mystery Mystery

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      Nov 1997 St. Martin's ISBN13 9780312966515 ISBN10 0312966512
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      First Edition Sep 1997 St. Martin's ISBN13 9780312169831 ISBN10 0312169833
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      Dec 1997 Thorndike Press ISBN13 9780786212460 ISBN10 0786212462
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