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This second exploit begins when, after a massacre on the walls of Shrewsbury, there are found to be ninety-five corpses whereas there should have been ninety-four. It is the twelfth century. Cadfael, who has seen much of life in his younger days is now in charge of the herb gardens in the Benedictine Monastery of Shrewsbury. England and Wales are ravaged and split by the feuding between Stephen and the Empress Maud for the throne of England, |