and the "The Magician's Death" again proves that.
As usual with Doherty' s novel it is written with a great flow, action and description intersect and create a vivid picture of the time and the acting people. Very quickly one get absorbed in the story and just wants to know what is going to happen next. I loath those novel where one has to read at least 100 pages just to get into the story. Paul Doherty spares one this kind of reading experience.

I believe I have read in the meantime all or at least almost all Doherty' s novels featuring Sir Hugh Corbett and his man-servant Ranulf-atte-Newgate. I find it interesting to see how the relationship between these chaps develop over time. For sometime I feel that the relationship is changing and Ranuf becomes more and more prominient. In the "The Magician's Death" this is development is more pronouced than before. I like that because characters develop overtime in real life too. So I wonder when Sir Hugh will retire and become just the guiding spirit for the newly created Sir Ranuf who will to the actual work.... we see what Paul Doherty will have in store for Sir Hugh and Ranuf.
All in all, a great and entertaining story! To be recommended