2001 - Rickman, Phil - The Cure of Souls (2)

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Robin Hood's Butts.

The cover of Rickman, Phil. The Cure of Souls (London; Basingstoke; Oxford. 2002) / Private collection.

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2018-04-30. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2019-04-05.

Allusion

'Mr Henry, all I'm concerned about – ' she wished she was the other side of the plate glass; she would run and run, all the way to Robin Hood's Butts ' – is kids dabbling with the dead. That kind of worries me. I can't stop them. All I can do is advise them that they could be messing with something that can't easily be controlled.'

Source notes

The paragraph cited occurs in chapter 33, "Item".

IRHB comments

The Cure of Souls is the third of Phillip Rickman's Merrily Watkins mysteries, a series of 'spiritual thrillers'. For another allusion in the book to these conical hillocks in Canon Pyon, see 2001 - Rickman, Phil - The Cure of Souls (1).

Lists

• Outside scope of Dobson, R. B., ed.; Taylor, J., ed. Rymes of Robyn Hood: an Introduction to the English Outlaw (London, 1976), pp. 315-19.
• Outside scope of Sussex, Lucy, compil. 'References to Robin Hood up to 1600', in: Knight, Stephen. Robin Hood: A Complete Study of the English Outlaw (Oxford, UK; Cambridge, Massachusetts: Blackwell, 1994), pp. 262-88.

Editions

• Rickman, Phil. The Cure of Souls (London. 2001). Not seen
  • Rickman, Phil. The Cure of Souls (London. 2002). Not seen
  • Rickman, Phil. The Cure of Souls (London; Basingstoke; Oxford. 2002); see p. 391
  • Rickman, Phil; Fell, Karolina, transl. Der Turm der Seelen: ein Merrily-Watkins-Mystery (Rororo, No. 25333) (Reinbek bei Hamburg, 2010). Not seen
  • Rickman, Phil. The Cure of Souls (London. 2011). Not seen
  • Rickman, Phil. The Cure of Souls (London. 2011). Not seen
  • Rickman, Phil. Merrily Watkins, [No. 2] (London. 2013). Not seen.

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