Good Reads - Fiction

Mystery

Historical Mysteries in Series: 1500s & 1600s

All titles are shelved in the Mystery section of the library and are the first in each series in the Downers Grove Public Library's collection.

1500s
M/BUCKLEY
Buckley, Fiona - To Shield the Queen - 1997, 278p.
When: 1560s
Where: England
Who: Ursula Blanchard, young widow and mother, attendant to Queen Elizabeth I

M/CHISOLM
Chisholm, P.F. - A Famine of Horses - 1994, 271p.
When: 1592
Where: Border between England and Scotland
Who: Sir Robert Carey, the Deputy Warden of the West March

M/CLYNES
Clynes, Michael - The White Rose Murders - 1993, 244p.
When: 1517
Where: England
Who: Roger Shallot: secretary, jack of all trades, scoundrel, liar

M/EMERSON
Emerson, Kathy Lynn - Face Down in the Marrow-Bone Pie - 1997, 218p
When: 1559
Where: Lancashire, England
Who: Susanna, Lady Appleton, author of a book about herbs

M/HARPER
Harper, Karen - The Poyson Garden - 1999, 310p.
When: 1550's
Where: English countryside near Canterbury
Who: Princess Elizabeth, in exile at a country house

M/MARSTON
Marston, Edward - The Queen's Head - 1988, 237p.
When: 1588
Where: England
Who: Nicholas Bracewell, actor, manager of a theater company

M/TOURNEY
Tourney, Leonard - The Players' Boy Is Dead - 1980, 192p.
When: 1500s
Where: England
Who: Matthew Stock, clothier

1600s
M/BROWN
Brown, Molly - Invitation to a Funeral - 1995, 288p.
When: 1676
Where: England
Who: Aphra Behn, playwright, widow, friend of Nell Gwyn

M/FURUTANI
Furutani, Dale - Death at the Crossroads - 1998, 210p.
When: 1603
Where: Japan
Who: Matsuyama Kaze, masterless Samurai

M/ROWLAND
Rowland, Laura Joh - Shinju - 1994, 367p.
When: 1689
Where: Edo (Tokyo)
Who: Sano, Samurai, policeman, former tutor

Prepared by Carol Yarmolich, November 2001