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Pilgrimage of Death Kindle Edition

by Sally Spencer (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
3.8 out of 5 stars 91 ratings
The year is 1386.

In a Southwark inn, a group of pilgrims on the road to Canterbury are challenged to a competition by the landlord.

Each will tell a story, and the teller of the best tale shall earn themselves a free meal on their return.

For Geoffrey Chaucer – soldier, spy, and poet – it is just the beginning.

Every time a story is told, its teller is soon found murdered… in the manner of which they had spoken of in their tale.

Together with the knight and the franklin, the three men alone deemed above suspicion, Chaucer attempts to piece together the strange and bloody trail.

But as Canterbury looms they seem no closer to uncovering the truth.

And any one of them could be next…

Will they uncover the terrifying mystery behind the murders?

Or will they also fall victim to the Pilgrimage of Death…?

‘Pilgrimage of Death’ is a chilling re-telling of Chaucer’s ‘Canterbury Tales’ with a murderous twist.

'A compelling read.' - Robert Foster, best-selling author of 'The Lunar Code.'

Sally Spencer worked as a teacher both in England and Iran - where she witnessed the fall of the Shah. She now writes full time. She is also the author of the Blackstone Victorian crime series.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00XEAXJ9C
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Lume Books
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  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ May 8, 2015
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1.0 MB
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 235 pages
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    3.8 out of 5 stars 91 ratings

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Sally Spencer

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Sally Spencer is a pen name, first adopted when the author (actually called Alan Rustage) was writing sagas and it was almost obligatory that a woman's name appeared on the cover (other authors like Emma Blair and Mary Jane Staples are also men). However, Alan uses James Garcia Woods as his pen name for the mysteries set against the backdrop of the Spanish Civil War.

Before becoming a full-time writer, he was a teacher. In 1978-79 he was working in Iran and witnessed the fall of the Shah. He got used to having rifles - and, one occasion, a rocket launcher - pointed at him by both soldiers and revolutionaries, but he was never entirely comfortable with it.

He lived in Madrid for over twenty years, and still considers it the most interesting and exciting city he has ever visited, but for the last few years he has opted for a quieter life in the seaside town of Calpe, on the Costa Blanca.

His first series of books were historical sagas set in Cheshire (where he grew up) and London. They were very popular with his English readers, but his American readers find the dialect something of a strain.

He has written twenty books featuring DCI Woodend (a character based partly on a furniture dealer he used to play dominoes with) and thirteen (so far!) about Woodend's protegé Monika Paniatowski. His DI Blackstone books are set in Victorian/Edwardian London, New York and Russia, and the DI Ruiz books have as their backdrop the Spanish Civil War.

Alan is a competitive games player who likes bridge and pub quizzes. It is only by enforcing iron discipline that he doesn't play video games all the time.

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  • William Johnson
    3.0 out of 5 stars Three Stars
    Reviewed in the United States on January 23, 2016
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    ending was kind of a let down
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  • Mike H.
    5.0 out of 5 stars This is a new departure for Sally Spencer – and it works brilliantly!
    Reviewed in the United States on July 28, 2015
    Format: Kindle
    In the Canterbury Tales, the pilgrims who are on their way to the shrine of Thomas-a-Becket tell stories to amuse one another. Some are high-minded, some bawdy, some successful and some not, but once the tale is told, it’s over. In this book, those same pilgrims, telling those same tales, seem to be inviting sudden, violent deaths, that are often really bizarre and gruesome. It really is a classic whodunit – or, as Chaucer, the narrator, tells us, the world’s first who-hath-done-it, for while men have been writing about murder since time immemorial, never before has the author liberally sprinkled clues as to who the killer may – or may not – be, but not actually named him until the end.

    The Pilgrimage of Death is primarily a murder mystery, but it is also a window on the medieval way of life and thinking, which makes it clear that people who lived then were not just us in fancy dress – a real bonus for me.
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  • Diane Hill
    5.0 out of 5 stars Good History Lesson with a Dash of Spice
    Reviewed in the United States on January 13, 2018
    Format: Kindle
    Nice. I enjoyed the history of the time. It kept my attention and made me go back and bring back the history of England. Thanks.
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  • karen rowell
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great read
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 21, 2019
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    Sally Spencer is someone to look out for, this book is a great read and a very clever twist on the Canterbury Tales. I can highly recommend this book.
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  • Richard Child
    3.0 out of 5 stars Entertaining but historically flawed
    Reviewed in Canada on August 21, 2019
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    Light reading marred by juxtaposition of pseudo archaic speech and modern phraseology. The concept is good and the plot equally so but it depends on a certain level of knowledge of Chaucer which needs to be little more than knowing he existed and wrote the Canterbury Tales. Knowing more of him would suggest that he was unlikely to act as described in certain scenes.
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  • Anne Black
    1.0 out of 5 stars Paniatowski and Blackstone books and loved them all but this is utter rubbish
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 3, 2015
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    This book gets no stars from me. I have read all the Woodend, Paniatowski and Blackstone books and loved them all but this is utter rubbish. Don't waste your money. It made me give it a star, wouldn't post with no stars
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