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Anna Castle

Publish and Perish

By Anna Castle - Published 2017

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It is an art to bring the past to life, an art at which Ms Castle excels. Through a myriad of small details, ...Read Review

Moriarty Meets His Match: A Professor & Mrs. Moriarty Mystery

By Anna Castle - Published 2016

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Mystery/Crime

Anna Castle launches a new series of Sherlock Holmes pastiche novels starring none other than Professor Moriarty with this completely winning volume, Moriarty ...Read Review

The Widow’s Guild (A Francis Bacon Mystery)

By Anna Castle - Published 2015

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Mystery/Crime

Anna Castle continues her series of the adventures of Francis Bacon with this story of Elizabethan England poised on the brink of invasion, ...Read Review

Death by Disputation

By Anna Castle - Published 2014

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Mystery/Crime

Francis Bacon is spymaster to his uncle William Cecil, Queen Elizabeth I’s chief advisor, in this novel. He recruits young Thomas Clarady ...Read Review

Murder by Misrule: A Francis Bacon Mystery

By Anna Castle - Published 2014 Published 2014-05-25

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Mystery/Crime

The clarification of Anna Castle’s beguiling debut novel Murder by Misrule is ‘A Francis Bacon Mystery,’ and although technically accurate – Bacon takes ...Read Review