Murder Most Medieval: Noble Tales of Ignoble Demises

Book Overview

Treachery Betrayal Murder

Of all crimes, murder is the most shocking. Taking another person's life-whether for gain, anger, envy, revenge, or power--is always horrendous. Since Cain killed his brother, murderers have found reasons to kill, and the crimes in Murder Most Medieval occur for many of the same reasons that murder is committed today.

As always, there are those champions who crusade against lawlessness,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1620458535
• ISBN13: 9781620458532
• Release Date: June 2000
• Publisher: Cumberland House Publishing
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

A nice anthology

I was pleased with the book. The quality of the paper, typeface etc is good. The contents are also good. I wish there were a couple more stories. Fortunatly I had only read one of them before. The story types varied in time period, viewpoint, and nature of the mystery. I liked some more than others but they were all well-crafted and worth re-reading.

A superb anthology

Murder Most Medieval is the best anthology of detective stories I have ever read. What makes it unusual is the uniformly high quality of the stories it contains. Each story is superb, beautifully written and skillfully plotted. Yet each story embodies its own author's style. The stories also differ from each other in in content; they are about different periods in time, about different kinds of person, about different ways and walks of life. I rarely like anthologies, but this one is truly extraordinary. The authors deserve much praise; most of the stories make me want to rush out and find other works by those authors unfamiliar to me. The editor deserves much praise as well for putting together such a unified and excellent work.