It shouldn’t be difficult. It’s quite straightforward. There’s even a King’s Investigator to deal with this sort of thing. So why does it take an inordinate length of time, a surfeit of confusion, a cast of characters who, frankly, deserve one another, and a secret that really does need unearthing? Probably because the investigator in question is Brother Hermitage.
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