Satisfied but anxious that the murderer must still be amongst the party he signals that the party, after several days delay in Lincoln should continue to London. When they safely reach Lincoln, the Archbishop instructs Hildegard and Thomas to interview all the forty-one servants and retainers in the party to establish their whereabouts for the period when the saucier, Martin, was suspected to have been murdered.Īfter they finish this they give their report to Neville and he realises that he should ask some questions of his people back in York and using the technology of the time he has the enquiries relayed back to York by carrier pigeon and waits for the reply. The party sets off and during the journey to Lincoln, the first stop, they are ambushed but manage to repel the outlaws.
While packing to leave, the Archbishop’s saucier is found brutally murdered in an ale vat, and it emerges that the culprit must be one of the Archbishop’s party. Hildegard of Meaux – a Cistercian Abbess with a keen instinct for crime solving is told that she and her companion, the monk Thomas, are to accompany the Archbishop of York, Alexander Neville, to London for the opening of Parliament amid much civic unrest. Review - A Parliament of Spies by Cassandra ClarkĬlark, Cassandra - 'A Parliament of Spies'
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