The Mammoth Book of More Historical Whodunnits

by Ashley, Mike

• ISBN13: 9780786709168
• ISBN10: 0786709162
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-08-29
• Publisher: Perseus Books Group

Summary

Three dozen mystery writersamong them Elizabeth Peters, Edward D. Hoch, Tom Holt, Margaret Frazer, Susanna Gregory, Derek Wilson, Marilyn Todd, and Michael Jeckscontrive 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 serial 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.

Table of Contents

Copyright and Acknowledgments	vii
Introduction: Past Crimes	1	(2)
Mike Ashley
Poppy and the Poisoned Cake	3	(24)
Steven Saylor
Blind Justice	27	(23)
Michael Kurland
A Payment to the Gods	50	(18)
Rosemary Rowe
The Last Legion	68	(29)
Richard Butler
And All That He Calls Family	97	(18)
Mary Reed
Eric Mayer
Death of an Icon	115	(24)
Peter Tremayne
King Hereafter	139	(23)
Philip Gooden
The Death Toll	162	(17)
Susanna Gregory
The Isle of Saints	179	(25)
Kate Ellis
A Perfect Crime	204	(24)
Derek Wilson
On Wings of Love	228	(9)
Carol Anne Davis
A Lion Rampant	237	(21)
Jean Davidson
The Amorous Armourer	258	(23)
Michael Jecks
Benefit of Clergy	281	(16)
Keith Taylor
The Pilgrim's Tale	297	(16)
Cherith Baldry
And What Can They Show, or What Reasons Give?	313	(18)
Mat Coward
Heretical Murder	331	(28)
Margaret Frazer
A Moon for Columbus	359	(11)
Edward D. Hoch
House of the Moon	370	(23)
Claire Griffen
Flibbertigibbet	393	(60)
Paul Finch
The Vasty Deep	453	(25)
Peter T. Garratt
A Taste for Burning	478
Marilyn Todd