The Yeoman's Tale

June, 1381. A horde of angry peasants marching to London forces Geoffrey Chaucer and his fellow travellers to abandon their annual pilgrimage and hole up at the Tabard Inn. That night, a woman's body is fished out of the River Thames. When he discovers that the victim was the wife of one of his fellow pilgrims, Chaucer determines to investigate.

About the author

M.J. Trow is a military historian by training and the author of the longrunning Inspector Lestrade and 'Mad Max' Maxwell detective series, as well as the Kit Marlowe Tudor mysteries, the Grand & Batchelor Victorian mysteries and the Margaret Murray series. He lives in the Isle of Wight.

Product details

• Authors: M.J. Trow
• Publisher: Canongate
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.10.2023
• EAN: 9781448307579
• ISBN: 978-1-4483-0757-9
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 215 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 305 g
• Series: A Geoffrey Chaucer mystery
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; London, Greater London, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Historical, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Amateur Sleuth, Historical mysteries, FICTION / Historical / Medieval, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Historical crime and mysteries, Comic (humorous) crime and mystery, c 1154 to c 1485 (Plantagenet and Angevin period)