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eloquence and indignation he carefully examines an expanse of topics
a glamorous colleague on the trading floor
child spies and the black markets of the prole neighbourhoods
a luxury hill-top hotel where a young woman
Belladonna at Belstone Violet Needham a young officerWhen Moll, a young nun, dies mysteriously at St. Mary's Priory in Belstone, England, the suffragan bishop orders Sir Baldwin de Furnshill, Keeper of the King's Peace, to investigate. Together with Bailiff Simon Puttock, his assistant in seven other puzzles in Jecks's delightful medieval series (The Last Templar, The Crediton Killings, etc.), Baldwin travels to Belstone, which is in a disgraceful state; greed, drunkenness and sexual license have all