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Paperback A Plague on Both Your Houses (Matthew Bartholomew Chronicles) Book

ISBN: 0751516953

ISBN13: 9780751516951

A Plague on Both Your Houses (Matthew Bartholomew Chronicles)

(Book #1 in the Matthew Bartholomew Series)

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Book Overview

For the twentieth anniversary of the Matthew Bartholomew series, Sphere reissued the books with beautiful new illustrated covers. ----------------------------- Matthew Bartholomew, unorthodox but effective physician to Michaelhouse college in medieval Cambridge, is as worried as anyone about the pestilence that is ravaging Europe and seems to be approaching England. But he is distracted by the sudden and inexplicable death of the Master of Michaelhouse - a death the University authorities do not want investigated. But Matt is determined to get to the truth, leading him into a tangle of lies and intrigue that cause him to question the innocence of his closest friends - and even his family - just as the Black Death finally arrives... A Plague on Both Your Houses is the book that introduced Matthew Bartholomew to the world. This description may be from another edition of this product.

Customer Reviews

6 customer ratings | 5 reviews

Rated 4 stars
Good

Not great. Not the greatest mystery plot. And the characters weren't compelling. The details about the plague were fascinating, and the author effectively portrayed its impact on life. I was a bit disappointed when comparing this first in the series to Candace Robb or of course Ellis Peters. But it was good and I will read the next.

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Rated 5 stars
Great Start to a Great Series

Susanna Gregory is the pseudonym of a Cambridge academic who was previously a coroner's officer. Her series of mediaeval mysteries have gained a formidable following. This book is the first in the series and introduces the physician Matthew Bartholomew to the reader. There are now a number of books in the series and they are always eagerly awaited by the author's fans. Besides practising medicine Matthew is also a teacher...

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Rated 4 stars
Introducing a New Medieval Sleuth!

PLAGUE ON BOTH YOUR HOUSES introduces us to Matthew Bartholomew, a 14th Century physician working at the University of Cambridge. Bartholomew, whose medical views are ridiculed by other less progressive doctors, investigates the suspicious death of a high college official, the first in a series of deaths that he soon realizes is connected with a shadowy power struggle between the Oxford and Cambridge colleges. As the body...

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Superb

I have now read all of Susanna Gregory's medieval whodunnits (A masterly murder being the latest). They are excellent. I am sure there are many Ellis Peter's fans who will decry them as a poor imitation but they are simply the best out on the market. Admittedly it has taken Ms Gregory 4 novels to really get going and you can almost see the development in the writing skills as you read each one. What makes them good is that...

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Rated 4 stars
Good Mystery

For those of us mourning the passing of Ellis Peters and the end of the Brother Cadfael mystery series, it is nice to know that others are writing in the genre. Ms. Gregory's writing isn't quite of the calibre of Ms. Peters, but certainly worth the effort. This is the first in the series of her mysteries set in the Dark Ages in England. The venue is Cambridge and her hero (Brother Matthew) is a monk as well as teacher...

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