The Wolf Letters, by Will Schaefer
Abbess, battle, Brother Duggo, Claude Pownall, Detective Sergeant Aage Nielsen, Dr Deborah Caraman, Eulalia, Father Walter Roby, fiction, George Haye, historical fiction, Kenneth Tiernan, letters, medieval characters, medieval setting, medievalism, medievalist fiction, monk, murder, mystery, novel, nunnery Ohthere, policeman, soldier, St Boniface, St Matthew’s College, thriller, war, Winfrith, wolf
The Wolf Letters, released in May 2011, is a debut historical thriller from Perth novelist Will Schaefer. The plot is a mystery that revolves around a stolen historical artefact (a wolf carved in jet) and two eighth-century letters found at the scene of a murder in Southern England, 1936. The setting for the novel oscillates between 1936 and the eighth century. According to the author, the story was inspired ‘by the real-life adventures of Winfrith, the seventh/eighth century Englishman better known as St Boniface’.
Schaefer, William
www.wolfletters.com
Hybrid Publishers
May 2011
Hybrid Publishers
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Murder Scene, 'Murder in the Cathedral', Bonython Hall, Adelaide.
actor, actors, Adelaide, archbishop, Archbishop of Canterbury, Australian Elizabethan Trust, Bonython Hall, Canterbury Cathedral, cathedral, Hugh de Morville, knight, murder, ‘Murder in the Cathedral’, medieval crime, play, Reginald Fitzurse, Richard le Bret, Robert Speaight, South Australia, T. S. Eliot, Thomas a’Becket, Thomas Becket, verse drama, William de Tracy
British actor, Robert Speaight (as Thomas a'Becket) in the murder scene from 'Murder in the Cathedral', performed in Bonython Hall, Adelaide, with 4 knights (L to R: Ron Haddrick, Ken Broadbent, Eric Reiman and Ron Graham, members of the Australian Elizabethan Theatre).
‘Murder in the Cathedral’ is a verse drama written by T. S. Eliot and first performed in 1935. The plot recreates the murder of Archbishop Thomas Becket by four knights at Canterbury Cathedral on 29 December 1170. The knights - Reginald Fitzurse, Hugh de Morville, William de Tracy and Richard le Bret - had overhead Henry II complaining about Becket and interpreted it as an order to kill him.
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National Archives of Australia, Image number L34653
Australian News and Information Bureau, Canberra
1960
Australian News and Information Bureau
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The Other House
Literature, fiction, novel, Henry James, murder, child-murder, drowning, marriage proposals, medieval barbarity, "William Heinemann - publisher"
In this article from the Western Mail newspaper, notice is given about the publication of Henry James’s novel “The Other Houseâ€. The novel had been published by William Heinemann in London the previous year (1896). The author of the article warns that modern readers may not be prepared for the confronting nature of the murder at the heart of the novel’s plot, in which the character of Rose Armiger drowns a four-year-old child and blames it on a rival in a complicated love triangle. The article links Rose Armiger’s ‘wickedness’ with a sense of medieval barbarity, suggesting that “it is only in medieval history that we are prepared to find murderers who wantonly destroy innocent babes for the sake of tacking the deed upon an enemyâ€.
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National Library of Australia<br />
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The Western Mail
3 September, 1897, p. 45
The Western Mail
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