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The Mammoth Book of More Historical Whodunnits
The Mammoth Book of More Historical Whodunnits Author:Mike Ashley (Editor) Three dozen mystery writers--among them Elizabeth Peters, Edward D. Hoch, Tom Holt, Margaret Frazer, Susanna Gregory, Derek Wilson, Marilyn Todd, and Michael Jecks--contrive deadly conundrums in the original stories commissioned especially for the volume. Its chilling, suspenseful pages include lethal doings in old Byzantium, the case of a seria... more »l killer loose in Elizabethan London, and terror in Celtic Wales, while inexplicable killings in medieval Sherwood Forest make sleuths of Robin Hood and Maid Marion and a perplexing murder in ancient Rome turns the orator Quintilian into Perry Mason.
Readers of the immensely popular first Mammoth Book of Historical Whodunnits will welcome back Steven Saylor's Gordianus the Finder and his occasional employer, the lawyer Cicero (in a story never collected before in book form), Peter Tremayne's Sister Fidelma in medieval Ireland, and Mary Reed and Eric Mayer's John the Eunuch, the Emperor Justinian's Lord Chamberlain. Edward Hoch, Keith Taylor, and Cherith Baldry also turn such familiar historical figures as Christopher Columbus, John de Mandeville, and Geoffrey Chaucer into detectives in this new Mammoth collection of historical mysteries.
Introduction : Past crimes / Mike Ashley --
Poppy and the poisoned cake / Steven Saylor --
Blind justice / Michael Kurland --
A payment to the gods / Rosemary Rowe --
The last legion / Richard Butler --
And all that he calls family / Mary Reed and Eric Mayer --
Death of an icon / Peter Tremayne --
King hereafter / Philip Gooden --
The death toll / Susanna Gregory --
The isle of saints / Kate Ellis --
A perfect crime / Derek Wilson --
On wings of love / Carol Anne Davis --
A lion rampant / Jean Davidson --
The amorous armourer / Michael Jecks --
Benefit of clergy / Keith Taylor --
The pilgrim's tale / Cherith Baldry --
And what can they show, or what reasons give? / Mat Coward --