P. F. Chisholm, Author . Poisoned Pen $24.95 (258p) ISBN 978-1-59058-737-9
Set in 1592, Chisholm's fifth Sir Robert Carey mystery (after 2000's A Plague of Angels
) includes a couple of potentially interesting supporting characters, Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare, but the playwrights come across as...
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P. F. Chisholm, Author Walker & Company $20.95 (270p) ISBN 978-0-8027-3252-1
Chisholm steeps her story in so much 16th-century atmosphere and historical detail that much in this British debut is slow going. When Sir Robert Carey, courtier to Queen Elizabeth, is transferred to the Scottish border, he finds many problems. His...
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P. F. Chisholm, Author Walker & Company $19.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8027-3276-7
A penniless nobleman fights corruption and intrigue in Elizabethan England in this rousing tale of murder and treachery. As Deputy Warden of the English West March, Sir Robert Carey, introduced in A Famine of Horses, attempts to rid his bailiwick of
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P.F. Chisholm. Poisoned Pen, $26.95 (284p) ISBN 978-1-4642-0462-3
Set in the contentious borderlands between England and Scotland in 1592, Chisholm’s absorbing seventh Sir Robert Carey mystery (after 2014’s An Air of Treason) focuses on Carey’s lady love, Elizabeth Widdrington, whose pluck and wit help her find...
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P. F. Chisholm, Author, Diana Gabaldon, Introduction by Poisoned Pen Press $14.95 (268p) ISBN 978-1-890208-43-1
In this fourth mystery featuring Sir Robert Carey (after A Surfeit of Guns), strong writing and a wealth of detail about Elizabethan London cannot make up for a painfully slow plot. The book opens with Carey and his sidekick, Sergeant Dodd, on the...
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