Medieval Murderers - M01 The Tainted Relic.nfo
General Information
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Title: The Tainted Relic
Author: The Medieval Murderers
Read By: Stephen Thorne
File Information
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Number of MP3s: 18 plus PARS and info
Genre: Historical Mystery
Bit Rate: 48 KB/s
Frequency: 44 KHz mono
Run Time: 14:58 h:m
Size: 309 Mb approx (excluding Pars)
Story
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The Medieval Murderers - A pseudonym used by Philip Gooden, Susanna
Gregory, Michael Jecks, Bernard Knight, Ian Morson
From Publishers Weekly
This entertaining but uneven round-robin effort by six British crime
writers traces the sinister history of a "fragment of the true cross"
from its origin in Jerusalem in A.D. 1100 through 10 bloody centuries.
In Beaufort's prologue, Barzac, the unlikely Arab custodian of this
artifact, places a curse on anyone touching the scrap of wood "stained
with Christ's blood" after Crusaders massacre his family. The relic
claims three victims in Jerusalem before turning up in 1194 in England,
where chapman Robert Blundus (in Knight's absorbing "Act One") seeks
to peddle this treasure to any willing churchman. Further travails over
the centuries lead to Philip Gooden's lively conclusion, in which Shakespeare
and friends get embroiled in a semicomical mixup between a missing play
of his and this "popish gewgaw." A brief epilogue, set in present-day
London, provides a final ironic twist.
Book Description
In 1100, an English knight named was entrusted with a precious religious
relic - a piece of the True Cross, allegedly stained with the blood
of Christ. The relic is said to curse anyone who touches with a gruesome
end as soon as it leaves their possession. Several decades pass, and
the Cross turns up in the possession of a dealer who is robbed and murdered
five violent deaths. Finally, the relic is dispatched to London, where
it falls into the hands of an unscrupulous book dealer - and where Philip
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