The Chronicles of Hugh de Singleton, Surgeon Series by Melvin R. Starr, Tim Bruce

4.05 · 126 ratings
  • The Unquiet Bones (The Chronicles of Hugh de Singleton, Surgeon #1)
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    The Unquiet Bones (The Chronicles of Hugh de Singleton, Surgeon #1)

    Melvin R. Starr

    Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings · published 2008

    Hugh of Singleton, fourth son of a minor knight, has been educated as a clerk, usually a prelude to taking holy orders. However, he feels no real calling—despite his lively faith—and he turns to the profession of surgeon, training in Paris, and then hanging his sign in Oxford.Soon after, a local lord asks Hugh de Singleton to track the killer of a young woman whose bones have been found in the castle cesspool... more

  • A Corpse at St Andrews Chapel (The Chronicles of Hugh de Singleton, Surgeon #2)
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    A Corpse at St Andrews Chapel (The Chronicles of Hugh de Singleton, Surgeon #2)

    Melvin R. Starr

    Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings · published 2009

    Alan, the beadle of the manor of Bampton, had gone out at dusk to seek those who might violate curfew. When, the following morning, he had stillnot returned home, his young wife Matilda sought out Master Hugh de Singleton, surgeon and bailiff of the manor.Two days later Alan's corpse is discovered in the hedge, at the side of the track to St. Andrew's Chapel. His throat has been torn out, his head half-severed from his body and his face, hands, and forearms lacerated with deep scratches... more

  • A Trail of Ink (The Chronicles of Hugh de Singleton, Surgeon #3)
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    A Trail of Ink (The Chronicles of Hugh de Singleton, Surgeon #3)

    Melvin R. Starr

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings · published 2010

    I had never seen Master John Wyclif so afflicted. He was rarely found at such a loss when in disputation with other masters. He told me later, when I had returned them to him, that it was as onerous to plunder a bachelor scholar's books as it would be to steal another man's wife. I had, at the time, no way to assess the accuracy of that opinion, for I had no wife and few books .. more

  • Unhallowed Ground (The Chronicles of Hugh de Singleton, Surgeon #4)
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    Unhallowed Ground (The Chronicles of Hugh de Singleton, Surgeon #4)

    Melvin R. Starr

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings · published 2011

    Another brilliant slice of medieval crime fiction Thomas atte Bridge, a man no one likes, is found hanging from a tree near Cowleys Corner. All assume he has taken his own life, but Master Hugh and Kate find evidence that this may not be so.Many of the town had been harmed by Thomas, and Hugh is not eager to send one of them to the gallows. Then he discovers that the priest John Kellet, atte Bridge's partner in crime in A Corpse at St... more

  • The Tainted Coin (The Chronicles of Hugh de Singleton, Surgeon #5)
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    The Tainted Coin (The Chronicles of Hugh de Singleton, Surgeon #5)

    Melvin R. Starr

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings · published 2012

    It is the autumn of 1367. Master Hugh is enjoying the peaceful life of Bampton, when a badly beaten man is found under the porch of St. Andrew's Chapel. The dying man is a chapman -- a traveling merchant. Before he is buried in the chapel grounds an ancient, corroded coin is found in the man's mouth... more

  • Rest Not in Peace (The Chronicles of Hugh de Singleton, Surgeon #6)
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    Rest Not in Peace (The Chronicles of Hugh de Singleton, Surgeon #6)

    Melvin R. Starr

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings · published 2013

    Master Hugh, surgeon and bailiff, has been asked to provide a sleeping potion for Sir Henry Burley, a friend and guest of Lord Gilbert at Bampton Castle, near Oxford.Three days before St. John's Day, in the year of our Lord 1368, Sir Henry went to his bed hale and hearty after enjoying a long evening of music, conversation, and dancing in Bampton Castle's hall. The next morn his valet found him cold and dead... more

  • The Abbot's Agreement (The Chronicles of Hugh de Singleton, Surgeon #7)
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    The Abbot's Agreement (The Chronicles of Hugh de Singleton, Surgeon #7)

    Melvin R. Starr

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings · published 2014

    My life would have been more tranquil in the days after Martinmas had I not seen the crows. Whatever it was that the crows had found lay in the dappled shadow of the bare limbs of the oak, so I was nearly upon the thing before I recognized what the crows were feasting upon. The corpse wore black.Master Hugh is making his way towards Oxford when he discovers the young Benedictine - a fresh body, barefoot - not half a mile from the nearby abbey... more

  • Ashes to Ashes (The Chronicles of Hugh de Singleton, Surgeon #8)
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    Ashes to Ashes (The Chronicles of Hugh de Singleton, Surgeon #8)

    Melvin R. Starr, Tim Bruce

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings · published 2020

    Master Hugh, Kate, and their children attend the Midsummer's Eve fire. Early next morning, Hugh hears the passing bell ring from the Church of St. Beornwald, and moments later is summoned. Tenants collecting the ashes to spread upon their fields have found burned bones. Master Hugh learns of several men of Bampton and nearby villages who have gone missing recently. Most are soon found, some alive, some dead. Master Hugh eventually learns that the bones are those of a bailiff from a nearby manor... more

  • Lucifer's Harvest (The Chronicles of Hugh de Singleton, Surgeon #9)
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    Lucifer's Harvest (The Chronicles of Hugh de Singleton, Surgeon #9)

    Melvin R. Starr

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings · published 2016

    Lord Gilbert Talbot must provide soldiers for Prince Edward's battle in France. He wishes his surgeon--Hugh de Singleton--to travel with the war party to tend any injuries. Among those on the road is Sir Simon Trillowe, Hugh's old nemesis, who had once torched Hugh's house.Finding himself in the same war party, Hugh resolves to watch his back in the presence of the knight, who is still holding a grudge. But it is Sir Simon who should not have turned his back... more

  • Deeds of Darkness (The Chronicles of Hugh de Singleton, Surgeon #10)
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    Deeds of Darkness (The Chronicles of Hugh de Singleton, Surgeon #10)

    Melvin R. Starr, Tim Bruce

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings · published 2017

    When Bampton’s coroner, Hubert Shillside, does not return from a trip to Oxford, Master Hugh de Singleton is called. Concerned for his old friend, Hugh takes to the road to investigate. Travel is safer than in times hence but, out of sight of prying eyes, it is still unwise to travel alone. Hugh finds a body, stabbed and left to rot, but it is not the body he was expecting to find. Indeed, reports of pillage, attacks, and chaos on the roads out of Oxford suddenly seem rampant... more

  • Prince Edward's Warrant (The Chronicles of Hugh de Singleton, Surgeon #11)
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    Prince Edward's Warrant (The Chronicles of Hugh de Singleton, Surgeon #11)

    Melvin R. Starr

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings · published 2018

    Master Hugh won the Black Prince's favour when he helped to ease the Prince's illness. Now, in the autumn of 1372, the prince is suffering a relapse and sends to Bampton for Master Hugh to attend him. While at dinner in Kennington Palace, Sir Giles, the knight who escorted Hugh to London, is stricken and dies. Poison! Sir Giles is not popular, and there are many who would gladly see the fellow done away with... except for Prince Edward... more

  • Without a Trace (The Chronicles of Hugh de Singleton, Surgeon #12)
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    Without a Trace (The Chronicles of Hugh de Singleton, Surgeon #12)

    Melvin R. Starr

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings · published 2019

    The wife of a knight disappears while traveling from her husband's manor to Bampton, on the way to another of the knight's properties. She and her maid are travelling in an enclosed wagon, whilst her husband and his grooms and a squire are mounted. When the party arrives at Bampton Castle neither the lady nor her maid are within the enclosed wagon: they have simply vanished... more

  • The Easter Sepulchre (The Chronicles of Hugh de Singleton, Surgeon #13)
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    The Easter Sepulchre (The Chronicles of Hugh de Singleton, Surgeon #13)

    Melvin R. Starr

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings · published 2020

    Keeping watch over the Easter Sepulchre, where the Host and crucifix are stored between Good Friday and Easter Sunday, is a great honour. Which is why the clerics are shocked to discover that Odo, one of the priest’s clerks, has abandoned his post in the middle of the night.But as the hours pass and Odo is not found, panic rises. At first light Bampton’s bailiff, Hugh de Singleton, is roused from his bed... more

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