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    Candlemas: 1588: A Calendar of Crime, Book One
    Candlemas: 1588: A Calendar of Crime, Book One
    Candlemas: 1588: A Calendar of Crime, Book One
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    Candlemas: 1588: A Calendar of Crime, Book One

    By Shirley McKay

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    A candlemaker’s life is extinguished in this short story of murder and intrigue featuring the sixteenth-century Scottish lawyer Hew Cullan.

    On Candlemas eve, an apprentice candle maker finds his master, John Blair, dead in his workshop, and the evidence points to the surgeon Sam Sturrock. Lawyer Hew Cullan finds himself, together with his friend, the physician Giles Locke, drawn into the investigation when they are enlisted by Sturrock’s desperate apprentice. At first it seems like Blair’s death is the result of reckless surgical practice, but as Hew delves deeper into the life of the candle maker he discovers a web of extortion. It seems John Blair was a man with many enemies . . .

    “McKay is to be congratulated for the continued quality and inventiveness of her tales.” —The National
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateMar 9, 2016
    ISBN9780857909084
    Candlemas: 1588: A Calendar of Crime, Book One
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    Shirley McKay

    Shirley McKay was born in Tynemouth but now lives with her family in Fife. At the age of fifteen she won the Young Observer playwriting competition, her play being performed at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs. She went on to study English and Linguistics at the University of St Andrews before attending Durham University for postgraduate study in Romantic and Seventeenth-Century prose. She was shortlisted for the CWA Debut Dagger. Shirley works as a freelance proofreader.

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