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What is as civilized as an auction room in the heart of oh-so-genteel Bath? That's what makes it the perfect place for the murder that opens Lovesey's 14th series procedural (after The Tooth Tatoo). Under the auctioneer's hammer is a block of carved stone, supposedly a 14th-century representation of Geoffrey Chaucer's Wife of Bath from his Canterbury Tales. The victim, and most active bidder, is a Chaucer scholar. Once Peter Diamond and his team are on the c...Log In or Sign Up to Read More