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Bernard Knight, or to give him his correct title, Professor Bernard Knight, CBE, was a pathologist to the Home office until 1980 when he was appointed Professor of Forensic Pathology at the University of Wales College of medicine, 1980. He has written the extremely successful Crowner John series of medieval mysteries, of which there are now ten or eleven books, His character Crowner John is certainly among my favourite characters in medieval mysteries.
May, 1195 and Sir John de Wolfe, better known to friend and enemy alike as Crowner John, Devon's first county coroner is faced with a series of serial murders. The first one is the suffocation of a Jewish money lender, followed by that of a London harlot and a priest and burgess suspected of abusing young boys. The common denominator that links all of the murders is a Biblical text left at the scene of each of the crimes.
Sir John knows that only one per cent of the population can read or write and for anyone to be literate and have knowledge of the Bible points to the fact that they are more than likely a priest. The problem is that there are a multitude of churches in Exeter, so the killer could be one of a large number of clerics, but Sir John takes his new post very seriously and will not let anything stand in his way of solving the crime, even the interfering Sheriff, Sir Richard de Revelle who is also John's brother-in-law and is not at all happy at Sir John being given the post of Devon's first coroner.
