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Mother Leakey and the bishop : a ghost story / Peter Marshall

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010

Online Ressource (xxvi, 323 p.) : ill., map.

Englisch

Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-313) and index. - Description based on print version record. - Description based on print version record. - Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002

Rezensiert in: Mother Leakey and the bishop. A ghost story. By Peter Marshall. Pp. xxvi+323 incl. 16 ills. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. £12.99. 978 0 19 927371 3 / Judith Maltby, 2008

0-19-153433-1 (electronic bk.); 978-1-4294-9186-0 (electronic bk.); 1-4294-9186-8 (electronic bk.); 978-0-19-153433-1 (electronic bk.)

OCoLC: 252692483 (aus SWB)     

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398.2094238 ; 398.209423/8     Ähnliche Literatur

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LOC-SH: Atherton, John 1598-1640 ; Legends -- Sources -- History -- England -- Minehead ; Ghost stories, English -- Sources -- History -- England -- Minehead -- England -- Minehead -- Electronic books -- History -- Sources

Atherton, John 1598-1640 / Atherton, John 1598-1640 ; Atherton, John 1598-1640 ; Ghost stories, English / Sources / History / England / Minehead / England / Minehead / Electronic books / History / Sources ; Legends / Sources / History / England / Minehead

In 1636 sightings of the ghost of an old woman are reported in Minehead, and a royal commission is sent to investigate. In 1940 a disgraced Protestant bishop is hanged in Dublin, after being convicted of an 'unspeakable crime'. Marshall sets out to uncover the link between these seemingly unconnected events