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Helplessly drawn to frants beautiful, unhappy mother, shield becomes entwined in their familys affairs. Harry sidebottom is fellow of st benets hall, and lecturer at lincoln college, oxford where he specializes in ancient warfare and classical art. William dougal, a postgraduate expert in the medieval script of caroline minuscule, stumbles on the garroted corpse of his tutor and finds himself embroiled in a hunt for a cache of diamonds, a deadly fairy story in which no one obeys the rules, least of all. When a brutal crime is committed he finds himself at.
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