A ground-breaking historical whodunit about the mysterious death of England's greatest medieval writer. In this enthralling work of historical speculation Terry Jones investigates the mystery surrounding the death of Geoffrey Chaucer over 600 years ago. Combining revelatory scholarship with the flair for narrative that marks all his work, the result is an absorbing synthesis of history and ...
A Medieval Mystery. In this enthralling work of historical speculation Terry Jones investigates the mystery surrounding the death of Geoffrey Chaucer over 600 years ago. In 1400 his name strangely disappears from the records without trace. What if he was murdered? What if he and his writings had become politically inconvenient when the oppressive regime of Henry IV overthrew the liberal Richard ..