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India Black: A Madam of Espionage Mystery
Madam India Black spends most of her time keeping her prostitutes from spending too lavishly to satisfy her upper-end British…
A Play of Piety
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I have been a fan of Margaret Frazer’s medieval mysteries about Dame Frevisse. This novel is the sixth of another…
Shroud of Dishonour
Shroud of Dishonour is the fifth of Maureen Ash’s Bascot de Marin Knights Templar mysteries. At this point Bascot, blinded…
Murder on Lexington Avenue
Victoria Thompson’s 12th Gaslight Mystery is just as interesting and fresh as her early works in this series. Murder on…
Murder for Christ’s Mass
In this fourth of the Templar Knight mysteries, the body of a clerk who worked for the local Lincoln mint…
A Play of Treachery
As an actor with a traveling company, Joliffe has played many roles. But when the Bishop Beaufort asks him to…
A Play of Treachery
As an actor with a traveling company, Joliffe has played many roles. But when the Bishop Beaufort asks him to…
Murder for Christ’s Mass
In this fourth of the Templar Knight mysteries, the body of a clerk who worked for the local Lincoln mint…
The Tale of Applebeck Orchard
In this installment of the Cottage Tales of Beatrix Potter series, facts from Potter’s world mix with a fictional mystery…
Royal Flush
Third in Bowen’s highly entertaining mystery series featuring Lady Georgiana, thirty-fourth in line to the British throne in 1932,…
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