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Author
Series
Ursula Blanchard mysteries volume 10
Publisher
Crème de la Crime
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
After receiving a threatening letter from the Countess of Norhumberland, Ursula Blanchard, special aide to Queen Elizabeth I, witnesses a series of strange events in her household and is soon accused of being a witch.
Author
Series
Ursula Blanchard mysteries volume 15
Publisher
Creme De La Crime
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Author
Series
Ursula Blanchard mysteries volume 11
Publisher
Creme de la Crime
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Author
Series
Sir Robert Carey mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Carlisle in 1592 is one of the most dangerous parts of Queen Elizabeth's kingdom, where the law of the Scots gives way to the law of the English, often leaving gaps where there is no law at all. Sir Robert Carey, the new deputy warden of the West March, must solve a murder and avert a minor civil war.
Author
Series
Ursula Blanchard mysteries volume 21
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
The queen's half-sister, Ursula Stannard, returns to solve another Tudor mystery in this page-turning tale of suspicious riches, murder and hidden treasures - can she find the golden cargoes?--
Author
Series
Ursula Blanchard mysteries volume 18
Publisher
Crème de la Crime
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
When the queen's spymaster, Sir Francis Walsingham, learns Ursula is to visit her relatives in Devon, he asks her to find out what has happened to two of his local agents, who have been strangely silent. On arrival in Devon, Ursula learns both men have met with mysterious, and fatal, accidents.
Author
Series
Nicholas Bracewell mysteries volume 13
Publisher
Allyson & Busby Limited
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Author
Series
Sir Robert Carey mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
"In 1592, dashing courtier Sir Robert Carey took up his northern post as Warden of the West March in order to escape the complications of creditors and court life. Trouble, however, dogs his heels wherever he goes. And where he goes in autumn, after various midadventures in Carlisle, is back to London upon a summons from his father." -- Back cover.
Author
Series
Ursula Blanchard mysteries volume 13
Publisher
Crème de la Crime, an imprint of Severn House Publishers
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
Description
January, 1576. Widow Ursula Blanchard is in no position to refuse when Sir Francis Walsingham decides she must wed Count Gilbert Renard in order to build a strategic alliance with the French. Soon after the count arrives at her country home to pay court, one of Ursula's household staff is found dead. An accident - or something more sinister?
12) Secret world
Author
Series
Kit Marlowe mysteries volume 7
Publisher
Crème de la Crime
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
June, 1589. Now a feted poet and playwright, Kit Marlowe is visiting his family in Canterbury. But it's not the happy homecoming he had hoped for. A long-standing family friend has been found dead in her bed, killed by several blows to the head. Convinced that the wrong person has been found guilty of the crime, Marlowe determines to uncover the truth.
13) Crimson rose
Author
Series
Kit Marlowe mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Crème de la Crime
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
When Christopher Marlowe's play debut is marred by the death of an audience member by a shot fired from the stage by a bit-part player named William Shakespeare, he sets out to determine what really happened and prove the actor's innocence.
Author
Series
John Dee papers volume 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Summoned by William Cecil to address dangerous questions about Elizabeth I's legitimacy, royal astrologer John Dee teams up with Robert Dudley to retrieve the bones of King Arthur, a mission that is complicated by magic, a first love, and a complex plot against the queen.
Author
Series
Ursula Blanchard mysteries volume 12
Publisher
Crème de la Crime
Pub. Date
©2013.
Language
English
Description
"July, 1573. Recently widowed, Ursula Blanchard is living a quiet life on her Surrey estate, caring for her infant son. But her peaceful existence is shattered when Ursula's neighbour Jane Cobbold is found dead in her own flowerbed, stabbed through the heart with a silver dagger - and Ursula's manservant Brockley is arrested for the crime. Determined to prove Brockley's innocence, Ursula seeks help from her old mentor Lord Burghley. But when a second...
Author
Series
Ursula Blanchard mysteries volume 9
Publisher
Crème de la Crime
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Happily married to her third husband, Hugh Stannard, lady-in-waiting Ursula Blanchard is hoping to give up her undercover work for Queen Elizabeth l in order to enjoy domestic bliss. But when Hugh unwittingly endangers possession of his ancestral home, Ursula is forced to take on a seemingly hopeless - but handsomely paid - private assignment, which the Queen spots is the perfect cover for a covert investigation into a group of rebel barons plotting...
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
In 1583, young Christopher Marlowe-student, brawler, rakehell, and would-be playwright-has had a dreadful evening. The first performance of his play in the corner of a very disreputable Cambridge bar is a humiliating flop, and then he's attacked on the streets while in the company of Thomas Kyd. So when Francis Walsingham, Queen Elizabeth's spymaster, sends for him, Marlowe is only too happy to go. The assignment is go to Holland, where England's...
18) Scorpions' nest
Author
Series
Kit Marlowe mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Crème de la Crime
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
October, 1586. Sir Francis Walsingham has despatched Kit Marlowe to the English College in Rheims where he suspects the Catholic traitor Matthew Baxter is hiding, the only one of the Babington plotters to have escaped. Infiltrating the College undercover, Marlowe learns that the community has been rocked by a series of unexplained and violent deaths. With the help of master codebreaker Thomas Phelippes, can Christopher Marlowe unearth a murderer,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
June, 1584. On hearing news of the sudden death of her stepfather, Sir Walter Pendennis, Rosamond Jaffrey must leave London for Cornwall to look after the interests of her young half-brother and try to mend her strained relationship with their mother. However, on arriving in Cornwall, Rosamond makes the shocking discovery that Sir Walter was in fact murdered - and reluctantly she agrees to work with an agent of the queen's spymaster, Sir Francis Walsingham,...
Author
Series
Ursula Blanchard mysteries volume 16
Publisher
Crème de la Crime, an imprint of Severn House Publishers
Pub. Date
©2018.
Language
English
Description
"March, 1581. Queen Elizabeth is once again being urged to consider marriage to the Duke of Alenc̦on, a French Catholic twenty years her junior. The prospect of the match is causing unrest throughout the kingdom. Ursula however has more immediate matters to worry about when her 9-year-old son is snatched away while out riding. If she is ever to see him again, Ursula must undertake an impossibly difficult and dangerous mission - and commit an act...
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