The Mammoth Book of Jacobean Whodunnits

✍ Scribed by Ashley, Mike (editor)

• Book ID: 108620270
• Publisher: Running Press
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 339 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781845293031

✦ Synopsis

The seventeenth century was a time ripe with murder, anarchy, war, and political and religious intrigue, of which the Gunpowder Plot is only one example. This unputdownable new anthology from Mike Ashley presents 25 whodunits set in those turbulent timesalso the age of the Witchfinder General, revenge tragedies, and the colonization of America. Stories of murder and mayhem centre on the true role of Guy Fawkes, the English Civil War and the fate of Charles I, plus the lost colony of Roanoke and the tale of Pocahontas. The Mammoth Book of Jacobean Whodunits is a fastpaced anthology about a thrilling time in British history.

INTRODUCTION: GUNPOWDER, TREASON AND PLOT Mike Ashley

THE KINGS FIRST ACHIEVEMENT Fiona Buckley

THE DUKE OF YORK P. F. Chisholm

THE TOWERS MAN Michael Jecks

A DISOBEDIENT DAUGHTER Jean Davidson

MURDER UNAUTHORIZED Amy Myers

ICE SAILOR Laird Long

SATAN IN THE STAR CHAMBER Peter Tremayne

GREEN TARTS Deryn Lake

O, POISONOUS WEED! F. Gwynplaine Maclntyre

A DEAD MANS WISH John T. Aquino

PERFECT ALIBI Philip Boast

THE RESTLESS DEAD Martin Edwards

A TASTE FOR DUCKING Marilyn Todd

DEATH KNOWS NO COMPROMISE Derek Wilson

A HOUSE DIVIDED Judith Cutler

TWO SIDES Mike Stotter

THE PALATABLE TRUTH Carol Anne Davis

THE COMEDY THAT BECAME A TRAGEDY F. Frankfort Moore

THE DUMB BELL Kate Ellis

THE CURIOUS CONTENTS OF A COFFIN Susanna Gregory

THE DUTCHMAN AND THE MADAGASCAR PIRATES Maan Meyers

TOM OF TEN THOUSAND Edward Marston

THE PHILADELPHIA SLAUGHTERMAN Ian Morson

TO WALK ON THORNY PATHS Paul Finch

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