Margaret Frazer
The Murderer’s Tale
There is a new prioress at St. Frideswide’s nunnery, and Dame Frevisse finds it difficult to get on with her.…
A Play of Heresy
Editors' choice
During the reign of Henry VI, Joliffe the Player returns to his travelling troupe as they prepare to assist the…
A Play of Piety
Editors' choice
I have been a fan of Margaret Frazer’s medieval mysteries about Dame Frevisse. This novel is the sixth of another…
A Play of Treachery
As an actor with a traveling company, Joliffe has played many roles. But when the Bishop Beaufort asks him to…
The Apostate’s Tale
Margaret Frazer improves with each book. This is her seventeenth Dame Frevisse novel, and it has more depth then some…
A play of Lords
As Parliament meets in autumn 1435, London offers diversions aplenty to the lords temporal and spiritual. When actor-playwright Joliffe and…
A Play of Isaac
A 15th-century company of players come toOxford, where, as well as their planned performances at theCorpus Christi festival, they are invited…
The Traitor’s Tale
In 1450, England had been warring with France for almost a century. But the English were now on the losing…
The Sempster’s Tale
This is the latest in Margaret Frazer’s Dame Frevisse mystery series and is set in London during the reign of…
A Play Of Knaves
A Play of Knaves, the third in the Joliffe Mysteries series (a spin-off of Frazer’s well-known Sister Frevisse mysteries) finds…
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