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Face Down in the Marrow-Bone Pie (Susanna, Lady Appleton, Bk 1) (Large Print)
Face Down in the MarrowBone Pie - Susanna, Lady Appleton, Bk 1 - Large Print Author:Kathy Lynn Emerson When Lady Appleton's husband's steward dies in a unique, ignominious, and highly suspicious manner, Susanna takes advantage of her husband's absence on a political mission for Queen Elizabeth to investigate Bexwith's mysterious demise. — The serving wench who found Bexwith claims that he was frightened to death by a ghost, but Sus... more »anna can think of several poisons that could have been concealed in the marrow-bone pie. (Susanna is something of an expert on poisons, having been inspired by her sister's fatal encounter with some poisonous berries to write a cautionary herbal for housewives.)
Even if Bexwith was poisoned, was it accidental or intentional? As if the case weren't complicated enough, Susanna must also unmask a "ghost"-- or are the ghost and the poisoner one and the same?
Kathy Lynn Emerson's debut Elizabethan mystery will delight as it introduces you to a sixteenth-century husband's worst nightmare: an intelligent, no-nonsense wife who happens to know hundreds of poisons.« less