Review: The Boy-Bishop's Glovemaker

Title: The Boy-Bishop’s Glovemaker
Author: Michael Jecks
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ½
Publisher: Headline
Copyright: 2000
ISBN: 0747266115
Pages: 331
Keywords: mystery, historical
Reading period: 20-22 December, 2007
Days before Christmas 1321, a glovemaker is murdered in the cathedral town of Exeter. Sir Baldwin and his friend, Simon Puttock, are asked to investigate by the Dean of the Cathedral.
Jecks juggles a complex plot with a large cast of characters, and manages to keep them distinct and interesting, while describing the intersection of cathedral and town life and Christmas rituals in medieval England.