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Book Face Down among the Winchester Geese

Download or read book Face Down among the Winchester Geese written by Kathy Lynn Emerson and published by Belgrave House. This book was released on 2010-09-15 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When her husband becomes one of the suspects in the murder of several Southwark prostitutes (known as Winchester Geese), Lady Appleton vows to uncover the identity of the real killer in order to prove her husband’s innocence. The year is 1563. Historical mystery by Kathy Lynn Emerson; originally published by St. Martin’s Press and Kensington Books

Book Face Down beside St  Anne s Well

Download or read book Face Down beside St Anne s Well written by Kathy Lynn Emerson and published by Belgrave House. This book was released on 2011-06-21 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Book Nine of the Face Down series, sixteenth-century gentlewoman, herbalist, and sleuth Susanna, Lady Appleton, travels north to the old Roman baths at Buxton to help her foster daughter, Rosamond, discover the truth about the sudden death of Madame Louise Poitier, French teacher at Bawkenstanes Manor. Does this murder relate to Mary Queen of Scots’ wish to visit the baths—or is the motive closer to home? Historical Mystery by Kathy Lynn Emerson [9th of the Face Down series]; originally published by Perseverance Press

Book How to Write Killer Historical Mysteries

Download or read book How to Write Killer Historical Mysteries written by Emerson Kathy Lynn and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2019-06-11 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The core of the book is Emerson's personal take on writing and selling historical mysteries, but it also includes contributions from over forty other historical mystery writers practical advice, anecdotes, and suggestions for research and input from assorted editors, booksellers, and reviewers. For both historical mystery writers and readers.This book embodies its subtitle: The Art & Adventure of Sleuthing Through the Past. Veteran author Emerson published her first mystery twenty-three years ago, and this is her thirty-sixth published book. It draws on her experience in researching, writing, selling, and sustaining both her Lady Appleton series (Elizabethan England) and her Diana Spaulding series (1880s U.S.). This unique reference book also includes the contributions of more than forty other historical mystery writers. Their books backgrounds and settings are as diverse as Ancient Egypt and Rome, antebellum New Orleans, early Constantinople, Jazz Age England and Australia, Depression-era California, turn-of-the-century New York, Victorian England, and eighteenth-century Venice.

Book Face Down Across the Western Sea

Download or read book Face Down Across the Western Sea written by Kathy Lynn Emerson and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-04-09 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anxious to prove England's claim on the New World, Queen Elizabeth has charged Sir Walter Pendennis, seasoned spy and diplomat, with the top-secret mission. Walter gathers a team of scholars at his Cornwall estate, and calls upon his dear friend Susanna, Lady Appleton, to assist. Susanna is an expert herbalist with a quick mind and wise ways-and Walter has long carried a flame for her. When Walter's wife appears uninvited at Priory House, she sets about extinguishing that flame. Meanwhile, Susanna and Walter find that troubling discrepancies have surfaced among sailors' accounts of the land beyond the Western Sea. Their research becomes intrigue when an eyewitness account turns up missing and a scholar is found dead in his study. Is the murder the work of an academic rival? A jealous lover? A Spanish spy? Scholarly trickery and New World scandal come to light as Susanna's sleuthing skills are put to the test. Face Down Across the Western Sea is a potent concoction, brimming with the qualities that have made the Susanna, Lady Appleton, series a favorite among mystery lovers: rich period detail, first-rate suspense, and at the center of it all, Susanna-a headstrong and beguiling heroine.

Book Face Down Before Rebel Hooves

Download or read book Face Down Before Rebel Hooves written by Kathy Lynn Emerson and published by Pinnacle Books. This book was released on 2003-04-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Susanna, Lady Appleton, masquerades as her old friend Walter's deceased wife in order to infiltrate a gang of conspirators bent on overthrowing Queen Elizabeth I.

Book Face Down Under the Wych Elm

Download or read book Face Down Under the Wych Elm written by Kathy Lynn Emerson and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elizabethan herbalist Susanna, Lady Appleton, must root out a killer when two women are accused of witchcraft while the real killer, an expert in poisons, remains free to strike again. Reprint.

Book Different Times  Different Crimes

Download or read book Different Times Different Crimes written by Kathy Lynn Emerson and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2017-05-16 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BLUTimes may change, but crime remains the same! Award-winning author Kathy Lynn Emerson has penned thirteen thrilling tales -- from medieval England to modern New England -- guaranteed to keep you on the edge of your seat! "A baker's dozen mysteries, delectable stories ranging from Elizabethan England to contemporary New England, every one intriguing, literate, and enriched by nicely observed details. For those who are Emerson's fans already, and for those who will be as soon as they finish this book." --Lillian Stewart Carl, author of the Jean Fairbairn/Alasdair Cameron series "Mix mischief with murder from medieval to modern times and you have Kathy Lynn Emerson’s marvelous new collection. A must-read for historical mystery lovers!" -- Barb Goffman, Agatha and Macavity award-winning author of Don't Get Mad, Get Even RB

Book Sequels

    Book Details:
  • Author : Janet G. Husband
  • Publisher : American Library Association
  • Release : 2009-07-30
  • ISBN : 0838909671
  • Pages : 793 pages

Download or read book Sequels written by Janet G. Husband and published by American Library Association. This book was released on 2009-07-30 with total page 793 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to series fiction lists popular series, identifies novels by character, and offers guidance on the order in which to read unnumbered series.

Book Mystery Women  Volume Three  Revised

Download or read book Mystery Women Volume Three Revised written by Colleen Barnett and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2010-12-31 with total page 1090 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like other fictional characters, female sleuths may live in the past or the future. They may represent current times with some level of reality or shape their settings to suit an agenda. There are audiences for both realism and escapism in the mystery novel. It is interesting, however, to compare the fictional world of the mystery sleuth with the world in which readers live. Of course, mystery readers do not share one simplistic world. They live in urban, suburban, and rural areas, as do the female heroines in the books they read. They may choose a book because it has a familiar background or because it takes them to places they long to visit. Readers may be rich or poor; young or old; conservative or liberal. So are the heroines. What incredible choices there are today in mystery series! This three-volume encyclopedia of women characters in the mystery novel is like a gigantic menu. Like a menu, the descriptions of the items that are provided are subjective. Volume 3 of Mystery Women as currently updated adds an additional 42 sleuths to the 500 plus who were covered in the initial Volume 3. These are more recently discovered sleuths who were introduced during the period from January 1, 1990 to December 31, 1999. This more than doubles the number of sleuths introduced in the 1980s (298 of whom were covered in Volume 2) and easily exceeded the 347 series (and some outstanding individuals) described in Volume 1, which covered a 130-year period from 1860-1979. It also includes updates on those individuals covered in the first edition; changes in status, short reviews of books published since the first edition through December 31, 2008.

Book Murders and Other Confusions

Download or read book Murders and Other Confusions written by Kathy Lynn Emerson and published by Belgrave House. This book was released on 2011-11-27 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Chronicles of Susanna, Lady Appleton, of the Face Down mystery series. Susanna, 16th century gentlewoman, herbalist and sleuth, solves mysteries and puzzles that baffle her contemporaries. These eleven stories conclude the Face Down series. Historical mystery short stories by Kathy Lynn Emerson; originally published by Crippen and Landru

Book The Detective as Historian

Download or read book The Detective as Historian written by Ray Browne and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-03-26 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Deeper understanding of history is enhanced by encasing it in art and interest. Crime fiction is one of the widest and most rapidly growing forms of literature. Historical crime fiction serves effectively the double purpose of entertaining while it teaches. The "truth" of the narrative account, the editors of this volume believe, is dependent on the understanding of human nature reflected in the author who writes the narrative. "Historical crime fiction," the editors of this volume write, "has an obligation and a golden opportunity. It must bring the past up to the present through the device of timeless crime and it must take the reader into the world about which is being written so that the characters are alive and the events interesting and challenging." Professional writers of fiction need to be more effective than mere authors of dates and assumed motivations. Therefore they can fill in human motivations and drives where no records exist and can aid the professional historians in what historian David Thelen calls the "challenge of history " which is "to recover the past and [interpret it for] the present." The essays in this volume accept the challenge and make major accomplishments for meeting it.

Book Contemporary Authors New Revision Series

Download or read book Contemporary Authors New Revision Series written by and published by Contemporary Authors New Revis. This book was released on 2001-08 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In response to the escalating need for up-to-date information on writers, Contemporary Authors® New Revision Series brings researchers the most recent data on the world's most-popular authors. These exciting and unique author profiles are essential to your holdings because sketches are entirely revised and up-to-date, and completely replace the original Contemporary Authors® entries. For your convenience, a soft-cover cumulative index is sent biannually.While Gale strives to replicate print content, some content may not be available due to rights restrictions.Call your Sales Rep for details.

Book Lucrezia Borgia and the Mother of Poisons

Download or read book Lucrezia Borgia and the Mother of Poisons written by Roberta Gellis and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-09 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Historical mystery that brings medieval London to life. Magdalene is a memorable character, sharp witted and strong, and she shines through this novel from start to unpredictable climax."--"Publishers Weekly."

Book A Mortal Bane

    Book Details:
  • Author : Roberta Gellis
  • Publisher : Macmillan
  • Release : 2001-09-17
  • ISBN : 9780812572360
  • Pages : 356 pages

Download or read book A Mortal Bane written by Roberta Gellis and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2001-09-17 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Magdalene la Bartarde is the madam of the Old Priory Guesthouse in medieval London, where people expect her and her women to indulge in sinful activities. But murder is not one of them--until Baldassare, the messenger for the Bishop of Winchester, dies. Sir Bellamy of Itchen, the bishop's most trusted knight, must prove how and why Baldassare died, or watch the beautiful Magdalene die on the gallows.

Book How to Write Killer Historical Mysteries

Download or read book How to Write Killer Historical Mysteries written by Kathy Lynn Emerson and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her useful, fascinating, and complete guide to writing historical mysteries, Emerson demonstrates how she and her colleagues bring history to life, rather than merely writing contemporary mystery in costume.

Book Murder in Retrospect

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michael Burgess
  • Publisher : Libraries Unlimited
  • Release : 2005-06-30
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 432 pages

Download or read book Murder in Retrospect written by Michael Burgess and published by Libraries Unlimited. This book was released on 2005-06-30 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The pleasures of mystery novels and historical fiction double when the two genres meet in a single book. This detailed guide is the first to document and describe the diverse writings in the growing body of historical mystery literature. Organized alphabetically by author name and series title, the guide covers the works of approximately 70 authors, and contains descriptions of more than 700 works with crime themes (whether strictly in the mystery genre or a mainstream literary novel). For those who want to read historical mysteries in sequence, this is an essential guide; and for those seeking background information on historical mysteries to guide their reading or collection development choices, this book offers a level of detail that facilitates selection. The pleasures of mystery novels and historical fiction double when the two genres meet in a single book. This detailed guide is the first to document and describe the diverse writings in the growing body of historical mystery literature. Its focus is on the best, most representative, most current and easily accessible publications, with an emphasis on series novels. Most have been released in the past decade, with select classic historical mysteries (e.g., Christie's Death Comes as the End, 1945) also cited. Organized alphabetically by author name and series title, the guide covers the works of approximately 70 authors, and contains descriptions of more than 700 works with crime themes (whether strictly in the mystery genre or a mainstream literary novel). For those who want to read historical mysteries in sequence, this is an essential guide; and for those seeking background information on historical mysteries to guide their reading or collection development choices, this book offers a level of detail that facilitates selection. Each series entry names the scene of the crime; identifies the detective and his or her chief associates; notes the series premise; comments on characteristics, features, and overall series quality; and discusses the critical response. Individual series titles (The Cases) are then listed and described in series (or chronological) order. Additional access to titles is provided through detailed indexes: author, title (series and individual), characters, and settings (time and place). Academic, public, and high school librarians will welcome this guide as a valuable reference, readers' advisory, and collection development tool.

Book No Mortal Reason

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kathy Lynn Emerson
  • Publisher : Pemberley Press
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN : 9780977191345
  • Pages : 284 pages

Download or read book No Mortal Reason written by Kathy Lynn Emerson and published by Pemberley Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her thirty-third published novel, the third mystery in this critically acclaimed series featuring "girl-reporter" Diana Spaulding, Kathy Lynn Emerson explores her own roots in rural New York with the aid of her grandfather's diaries. 1888 -- When Diana and her fiancée Dr Ben Northcote journey to Sullivan Country, New York, they discover Diana's long-lost relative embroiled in a speculator's crazy scheme to turn the family hotel into the next Saratoga Springs. Then an excavation figs up a skeleton, and Diana must exercise her reporter's nose to clear her Uncle Howd of a ten-year old murder, enhanced by a cast of colourful humans and an aggressive nanny goat.