The much-feared & hated Eudo
- the Lord Bishop of Winchester's clerk
- is bludgeoned to death in Pershore Abbey & laid before the altar in the attitude of a penitent Everyone who had contact with him had reason to dislike him but who had reason to kill him? The Sheriff of Worcestershire's thief taker wily Serjeant Catchpoll & his new & unwanted superior Undersheriff Hugh Bradecote have to find the answer & as the claustrophobic walls of the Abbey close in on the suspects the killer strikes again Previously published as The Lord Bishop's Clerk