The Riddle of St. Leonard's
Subtitle: ''An Owen Archer Mystery'' (no 5) ''Author of the King's Bishop''
By: [by] Candace Robb
Edition: St. Martin's paperbacks ed. Nov '98
Series: St. Martin's Paperbacks: (Owen Archer Mystery #5) [$6.50 USA / $8.50 CAN]
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: November 15, 1998
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 303
ISBN-13: 9780312966515
Copyright date: 1997 by Candace M. Robb; 1998 by Candace M. Robb (for excerpt from ''A Gift of Sanctuary'')
Subjects: Fiction; Owen Archer (Fictitious character); Government investigators; History
Other titles: Riddle of Saint Leonard's
Description: "Medieval York is wrapped in a dangerous riddle that only Owen Archer can unfurl. The fetid summer heat of 1369 has the citizens of York besieging Owen Archer's apothecary wife, Lucie, for physicks against noxious vapors. But more than pestilence is in the air.

Owen is summoned to investigate the theft of rare treasures from St. Leonard's Hospital and the untimely deaths of aging patients. What links a brutal robbery, a fatal fire, a lay sister some still call whore, and a homeless urchin who shoots an arrow as straight as Owen himself?

Country lore and town gossip lead him deep into the past, toward a killer with a heart blacker than the plague itself ..."--Back Cvr.
Notes: Printed and Published in the U.S.A.

**"An Owen Archer mystery"--Cover. /Inc. bibliographical ref. pg 304 /Sep '97 (Hardcover) Nov '98 (Pprback) **