A Tournament of Murders: The Franklin's Tale of Mystery and Murder as He Goes on Pilgrimage from London to Canterbury

Author / Editor
Doherty, P. C.

Title
A Tournament of Murders: The Franklin's Tale of Mystery and Murder as He Goes on Pilgrimage from London to Canterbury

Published
New York: St. Martin's; London: Headline, 1996.

Physical Description
249 pp.

Description
Historical gothic detective fiction set in the frame of the CT, in which a franklin, modeled on Chaucer's Franklin, tells a story to the rest of the pilgrims about a mysterious murder linked to the battle of Poitiers and the parentage of one of the participants.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Franklin and His Tale