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
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
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
The Rose of the World (A Hawkenlye Mystery)
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In 13th-century England, we find a former abbess, Helewise, who has renounced her vows, deserted the nunnery, and is living with her lover. ...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
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
