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Stumbling upon an execution, Chaucer's pilgrims witness a hanging that leaves the carpenter in a dead faint. That evening, he narrates the tale of a Gloucester hangman whose involvement in the secretive punishment of three witches unleashes a vicious spate of revenge killings.

When Simon Cotterill, a carpenter, followes his sweetheart to Gloucester, he is beaten by her father's thugs. Homeless and with no family to help him, he accepts the only job he can find and joins the local hangman's crew, replacing a man whop himself was sent to the gebbet. But Simon feels rejected even by the desperate men he now works with, until he learns the secret of how a hanged man can walk away from his grave.

• Paul Doherty
• Published 1970 January 1st by Headline (first published 1970 January 1st)
• ISBN: 0747258716
• ISBN13: 9780747258711
• 256 Pages
• 4.28 516 ratings
• 20 reviews