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  • The Principal Day
    Diane Calton Smith
    The master of Wisbech Grammar School has been found dead by poisoning. In the eyes of the local sergeant, only one person can be considered guilty; schoolboy Rupert of Tilneye. With the youth secured in the cells of Wisbech Castle, it looks certain that he will hang for the crime. The seneschal for the Isle of Ely, asked to investigate by the Tilneye family, soon starts to delv...
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  • Back to the Flood
    Diane Calton Smith
    ’Everything harks back to the flood,’ or so the constable of Wisbech Castle claims. The market baker Alured is dead. In the midst of a ferocious blizzard, Roger of Abynton, the bishop’s seneschal for the Isle of Ely, arrives in Wisbech. He soon finds himself struggling to unravel the web of cover-ups and lies surrounding the death of Wisbech’s most hated man. These are unsettli...
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  • The Charter of Oswy and Leoflede - A Fenland Mystery Set in the Twelfth Century
    Diane Calton Smith
    The Charter of Oswy and Leoflede, by which in times past the Manor of Wisbech was gifted to Ely Abbey, has been lying forgotten and gathering dust for centuries. Now suddenly, it seems, everyone is interested in it. In 1190 a wave of fire and theft begins to spread through Wisbech, bringing death in its wake. The seneschal for the Isle of Ely arrives to investigate, but the har...
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    21,89 €

  • The Lazar House
    Diane Calton Smith
    Lady Frideswide has been poisoned.It was in no one’s interest to do such a thing. The Lazar House, the leper hospital between Wisbech and Elm, relies heavily on charity, and no one has given so generously as Lady Frideswide de Banlon. Though haughty and unpopular, the longer she lived, the longer the hospital could hope to survive. Yet someone has killed her and the Lazar House...
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  • Plague, Flood and Gewgaws
    Diane Calton Smith
    It must truly have been a night to remember, when the ancient tower of St Peter’s came crashing down.But that was just the beginning of all that would befall the people of Wisbech and the Fens in the Tudor and Stuart eras. They were about to enter a time of such upheaval that the way they behaved, prayed, even the way in which they were expected to think, would be turned upside...
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  • The Quayside Poet
    Diane Calton Smith
    Sometimes the truth lies hidden for years.Sometimes it is merely mislaid. Joshua Ambrose, poet and merchant of the Georgian town of Wisbech, rubs shoulders with some very interesting neighbours in his everyday life. Among them are the anti-slavery campaigner Thomas Clarkson and the Quaker banker Jonathan Peckover. In 1799, with its wealthy merchants and prosperous port, Wisbech...
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  • Webbed Feet and Wildfowlers
    Diane Calton Smith
    Bronze Age fishermen, Roman engineers, Saxon Christians, Norman nobles – Fenland has been home to them all. And without exception, whether noble or villein, bishop or serf, they’ve all had to cope with life in this marshy, rebellious land.This book is not really about nobles or bishops, though they make more than their fair share of appearances. It is about the ordinary Fenland...
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    17,54 €

  • A Georgian House on the Brink
    Diane Calton Smith
    Peckover House was built at a very good time...In rediscovering Georgian Peckover and the bustling, prosperous town of eighteenth century Wisbech, old maps, books and letters have played their part. The town that is revealed brings a great many surprises, as well as feeling comfortably familiar.Wisbech, with its role in a fast developing Britain, has told many of its secrets. N...
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    21,36 €