Sleuth of Sherwood - Ruud, Jay
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Robin Hood-leader of an outlaw band of Sherwood Forest-befriends an impoverished knight who is about to lose his ancestral lands after his son, Peter, accidentally kills a rival knight, Sir Walter, in a tournament. The Abbot of St. Mary's, who served as judge in Peter's trial, imposed a huge fine on the knight, who then had to put up his lands as surety for the fine. Robin and Little John suspect that the abbot is only after the estate, and find that the abbot has also conspired to control the lands of the new Countess of Chesterfield by kidnapping her and trying to force her to marry his…mehr

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Robin Hood-leader of an outlaw band of Sherwood Forest-befriends an impoverished knight who is about to lose his ancestral lands after his son, Peter, accidentally kills a rival knight, Sir Walter, in a tournament. The Abbot of St. Mary's, who served as judge in Peter's trial, imposed a huge fine on the knight, who then had to put up his lands as surety for the fine. Robin and Little John suspect that the abbot is only after the estate, and find that the abbot has also conspired to control the lands of the new Countess of Chesterfield by kidnapping her and trying to force her to marry his kinsman, Sir Walter-who, it turns out, is not dead after all, but in hiding with the kidnapped countess. Robin must trick Walter's mother into revealing his whereabouts, rescue the countess from her prison, and ultimately confront the abbot in his den. It's a tall order, but along the way, Robin will have to rescue Little John's partner, Will Stutely, from hanging, and seduce the Sheriff of Nottingham's wife, as well. Well, he doesn't have to do the latter, but some things just happen...
Autorenporträt
Jay Ruud is a retired professor of English at the University of Central Arkansas with a Ph.D. in Medieval Literature, now devoting much of his time to fiction writing. He has retold the traditional legend of King Arthur for modern readers as a series of Merlin Mysteries: Fatal Feast, The Knight's Riddle, Lost in the Quagmire, The Bleak and Empty Sea, The Knight of the Cart, and To the Great Deep. He's also written scholarly books, including an Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature (2006), A Critical Companion to Dante (2008), and A Critical Companion to Tolkien (2011), as well as the first full-length study of Chaucer's short poems, "Many a Song and Many a Lecherous Lay": Tradition and Individuality in Chaucer Lyric Poetry (1992), a book that was reissued by Routledge in October 2019 after 27 years. He is the author of the Robin Hood Mystery series, Sleuth of Sherwood (June 2022), Ghoul of Sherwood (December 2022), an Eric Hoffer Book Award Finalist, and book 3, Treasure of Sherwood, which will be published by Encircle in June 2024. For the latest news, visit jayruud.com, and you can follow Jay on Facebook @jay.ruud.author, and on Instagram @GildasOfCornwall.