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  • The Bleak and Empty Sea
    Jay Ruud
    When word comes to Camelot that Sir Tristram has died in Brittany of wounds suffered in a skirmish, and that his longtime mistress, La Belle Isolde, Queen of Cornwall, has subsequently died herself of a broken heart, Queen Guinevere and her trusted lady Rosemounde immediately suspect that there is more to the story of the lovers’ deaths than they are being told. It is up to Mer...
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    13,86 €

  • Treasure of Sherwood
    Jay Ruud
    Robin Hood, wanted for the fatal poisoning of Lord William Randal, secretly visits Nottingham to find out what the Sheriff’s wife knows about the charge. When he is apprehended and thrown into the dungeons of Nottingham Castle, his friends are spurred to action. Alan a Dale, whom Lord William had befriended, vows to find the murderer. Alan and his wife Ellen interrogate Lord Wi...
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    14,85 €

  • Treasure of Sherwood
    Jay Ruud
    Robin Hood, wanted for the fatal poisoning of Lord William Randal, secretly visits Nottingham to find out what the Sheriff’s wife knows about the charge. When he is apprehended and thrown into the dungeons of Nottingham Castle, his friends are spurred to action. Alan a Dale, whom Lord William had befriended, vows to find the murderer. Alan and his wife Ellen interrogate Lord Wi...
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    21,95 €

  • The Knight’s Riddle
    Jay Ruud
    When a disheveled young woman walks into King Arthur’s court and demands justice, declaring she has been brutally violated by a knight of the Round Table, Arthur vows that the culprit will be tracked down and punished. But young Gildas of Cornwall, now squire to the king’s nephew Sir Gareth, has his own problems: His beloved Lady Rosemounde has been betrothed by her father to a...
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    13,42 €

  • Ghoul of Sherwood
    Jay Ruud
    When Robin Hood hears of the Sheriff of Nottingham’s great archery tournament, nothing can keep him from attending the contest in disguise in the hopes of carrying off the prize right under the Sheriff’s nose. Meanwhile, when Friar Tuck hears of a brutal murder in his hometown of Wallingwells, he is compelled to travel there and uncover the mystery.Appalled when the murder Will...
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    14,77 €

  • Sleuth of Sherwood
    Jay Ruud
    Robin Hood-leader of an outlaw band of Sherwood Forest-befriends an impoverished knight who is about to lose his ancestral lands after his son, Peter, accidentally kills a rival knight, Sir Walter, in a tournament. The Abbot of St. Mary’s, who served as judge in Peter’s trial, imposed a huge fine on the knight, who then had to put up his lands as surety for the fine.    Robin a...
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    30,82 €

  • Sleuth of Sherwood
    Jay Ruud
    Robin Hood-leader of an outlaw band of Sherwood Forest-befriends an impoverished knight who is about to lose his ancestral lands after his son, Peter, accidentally kills a rival knight, Sir Walter, in a tournament. The Abbot of St. Mary’s, who served as judge in Peter’s trial, imposed a huge fine on the knight, who then had to put up his lands as surety for the fine.    Robin a...
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    13,96 €

  • 'Many a Song and Many a Leccherous Lay'
    Jay Ruud
    Originally published in 1992. Although they were apparently much appreciated in his own time, Chaucer’s lyrics have for most of the modern era been the most neglected of his poetic productions. This work offers a comprehensive overview of Chaucer’s lyric corpus. The author extends his scope to include in-depth discussions of literary and cultural influences that have their impa...
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    42,98 €

  • To the Great Deep
    Jay Ruud
    When Sir Agravain leads a dozen knights to arrest Lancelot in the queen’s chamber, he kills them all in his own defense-all except the villainous Mordred, who pushes the king to make war on the escaped Lancelot, and to burn the queen for treason. On the morning of the queen’s execution, Lancelot leads an army of his supporters to scatter King Arthur’s knights and rescue Guineve...
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    14,46 €

  • The Knight of the Cart
    Jay Ruud
    The embittered Sir Meliagaunt is overlooked by King Arthur when a group of new knights, including Gildas of Cornwall, are appointed to the Round Table. In an ill-conceived attempt to catch Arthur’s notice, Meliagaunt kidnaps Queen Guinevere and much of her household from a spring picnic and carries them off to his fortified castle of Gorre, hoping to force one of Arthur’s great...
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    14,60 €

  • Lost in the Quagmire
    Jay Ruud
    When Sir Galahad arrives in Camelot to fulfill his destiny, the presence of Lancelot’s illegitimate son disturbs Queen Guinevere. But the young knight’s vision of the Holy Grail at Pentecost inspires the entire fellowship of the Round Table to rush off in quest of Christendom’s most holy relic. But as the quest gets under way, Sir Gawain and Sir Ywain are both seriously wounded...
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    14,37 €

  • Fatal Feast
    Jay Ruud
    When an Irish knight dies mysteriously at a banquet she is hosting‚ Queen Guenivere is charged with murder and faces death at the stake if found guilty. Her loyal page‚ Gildas‚ rushes to the woods to track down Merlin and convince him to take up the investigation and save the queen.Fatal Feast is a fast-paced murder mystery set in the legendary court of Camelot‚ imagined as it ...
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    14,36 €