Phyllis T. Smith
The Painted Bridge
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In 1859 London, Anna Palmer is committed to an insane asylum by her minister husband. She is not psychotic but has embarrassed him by ...Read Review
Dorchester Terrace
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In 1896, Thomas Pitt deals with the challenges of becoming chief of Scotland Yard’s Central Branch. With the support of his wife Charlotte, ...Read Review
Guest of Honor: Booker T. Washington, Theodore Roosevelt, and the White House Dinner That Shocked the Nation
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This highly readable, absorbing work of social history focuses on one small White House dinner party and its aftermath. In 1901, the president of ...Read Review
Presenting History: Past and Present
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In this insightful book, Peter J. Beck, an emeritus professor of history in the UK, cites data indicating that both British and American ...Read Review
Fire & Song: The Story of Luis de Carvajal and the Mexican Inquisition
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One thinks of the Inquisition as a European phenomenon, but as Anna Lanyon shows in this highly readable account of events in late 16...Read Review
Slant of Light
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Just before the Civil War, Turner, a writer and lecturer, founds Daybreak, a Utopian community, in the Missouri Ozarks. He, his wife Charlotte, ...Read Review
The Flowers of War
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In 1937, the Japanese capture Nanking, China. An expatriate American priest, Father Engelmann, hopes his church will be respected as a safe, neutral zone. ...Read Review
The Silence (Viennese Mysteries)
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In this excellent mystery set in Vienna in 1900, Werthen, a lawyer, is hired by a wealthy family to find a son who has ...Read Review
Cecelia and Fanny: The Remarkable Friendship Between an Escaped Slave and Her Former Mistress
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This book tells the true story of the bond between Cecelia Reynolds, who escaped from slavery in 1846, and Fanny Thruston, who owned her. ...Read Review
The Midsummer Crown (Roger the Chapman Mysteries)
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This is a locked room mystery with a fascinating historical backdrop. It is set in England during the months in 1483 between the death ...Read Review
