Susanna GREGORY. The Devil's Disciples
The Fourteenth Chronicle of Matthew Bartholomew It is ten years since the Black Death reaped its harvest at Cambridge. Now, in the stifling summer of 1357, an even more sinister visitor is at large. He claims that when the plague comes again he will save people. Last time God failed, next time the Devil will succeed. Some people easily believe the message from the Devil’s disciple, a black-hooded figure known only as the Sorcerer. Some need a little more persuasion and for those he leaves reminders of his powers – manuals on sorcery, a hand severed from a corpse, desecrated graves. But there are stubborn sceptics in the town, and physician Matthew Bartholomew is one of them. He suspects that a more identifiable form of devilry is involved, one that has reared its head in the affairs of the town and the university before, when disputes break out between religious orders, when quarrels rage over legacies, and where mysteries linger over clerics who have fled the countr...Author: Gregory Susanna
ISBN: 9780748124503
Year of publication: 2008
Collection: Chronicles of Matthew Bartholomew
Genre: Historical detective
Number of pages: 438
Reading time: 7 h. 18 min.
Formats: FB2, EPUB, PDF
