Jen's Place--Mysteries... Historicals

Ancient Roman Mysteries

1. "Silver Pigs" 2. "Shadows in Bronze" 3. "Venus in Copper"
4. "The Iron Hand of Mars" 5. "Poseidon's Gold" 6. "Lasy Act in Palmyra"
7. "Time to Depart" 8. "A Dying Light in Corduba" 9. "Two for the Lions"
10. "Three Hands in the Fountain" 11. "One Virgin Too Many"

Ancient Roman Mysteries
1. "Silver Pigs"	2. "Shadows in Bronze"	3. "Venus in Copper"
4. "The Iron Hand of Mars"	5. "Poseidon's Gold"	6. "Lasy Act in Palmyra"
7. "Time to Depart"	8. "A Dying Light in Corduba"	9. "Two for the Lions"
10. "Three Hands in the Fountain"	11. "One Virgin Too Many"

"Silver Pigs"
Crown Publishers, Inc, 1989, HC
Reviewed on 5/6/01

Down the mean alleys of ancient Rome, Marcus Didius Falco is the Empire's Philip Marlowe - streetwise, tough, too honest for his own good, and a sucker for a pretty face. Falco is a private detective operating in the Emperor Vespasian's Rome. Being a frequent recipient of female clients' favors after particularly trying cases, Falco is delighted when the young, beautiful, and blond Sosia Camillina runs into him, quite literally, in the Forum one day. He is less delighted when he discovers that Sosia is being chased by two street hoodlums who apparently intend her no good. Taking matters in hand, Falco effects a hasty and chaotic retreat with his young charge back to his rooftop aerie in a grimy tenement, where a real threat lurks: his fierce mother, who has no qualms about evicting the various loose women in his life during her daily sweeps. Falco learns that Sosia was being chased because of her knowledge of the hiding place of some silver pigs - lead ingots bearing silver - that are being smuggled into Rome to fund a plot against the Emperor. Sosia is the neice of a well-heeled senator, and Falco is thrilled at the possibility of upgrading his social life when the senator, Decimus Camillus, offers him a job to uncover the plot. Falco's subsequent discoveries draw him inexorably into the heart of treachery and conspiracy at the highest levels, and lead him further into a labyrinth of political greed, danger, and love.
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Turn Of The Centutry Americana Mysteries

1. "The Strange Files of Fremont Jones" 2. "Fire and Fog"
3. "The Bohemian Murders" 4. "Emperor Norton's Murders"
5. "Death Train to Boston" 6. "Beacon Street Mouring"

Turn Of The Centutry Americana Mysteries
1. "The Strange Files of Fremont Jones"	2. "Fire and Fog"
3. "The Bohemian Murders"	4. "Emperor Norton's Murders"
5. "Death Train to Boston"	6. "Beacon Street Mouring"

"The Strange Files of Fremont Jones"
Doubleday, April 1995, HC
Reviewed on 8/5/00

When proper Bostonian and wellesley graduate Fremont (née Caroline) Jones buys a train ticket to San Francisco to escape her stepmother's meddlesome matchmaking and embark on a career as an independent "type-writer," she surely knows she is headed for adventure. Well-brought-up young ladies simply don't do that sort of thing in 1905. But she soon discovers that her new career may involve more excitement than she bargained for. Certainly she had never intended to become personlly embroiled in the lives of her clients. First there is Justin Cameron, the dashingly handsome and somewhat fackless young lawyer, whose charm almost sweeps Fremont off her feet and lands her in mortal danger. Then there is the the strangely disturbed and wildly frightened Edgar Allan Partridge, whose phantasmagoric autobiographical manuscript sends her on a mission of discovery up the California coast. And finally there is the elegant and deferntial Li Wong, whose untimely death is linked to the paper Fremont typed for him, the content of which she cannot recall.
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"Fire and Fog"
Doubleday, July 1996, HC
Reviewed on 8/8/00

Awakened by a terrible rumbling and nearly crushed by a falling armoire, Fremont Jones finds herself in the midst of the Great San Francisco Earthquake. In the confusion and devastion of the ensuing fires, Fremont learns to drive an automobile, finds herself pursed by two ardent suitors, comes to have disturbingly romantic feelings toward her sleuthing cohort, the mysterious Michael Archer, becomes invovled with murderous smugglers, and makes a discovery that almost cost her her life.
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"The Bohemian Murders"
Doubleday, July 1997, HC
Reviewed on 8/8/00

Forced to leave San Francisco after the devastating earthquake of 1906, Fremont Jones is finally willing to follow her heart - and her elusive suitor, Michael Archer - to the bohemian beach community of Carmel-by-the-Sea. But she finds Michael utterly changed and, apparently, otherwise engaged. Heartbroken, confused - and furious - Fremont accepts a position as temporary keeper of the Point Piños lighthouse, determined to carry on her typewriting business part-time and nurse her wounds in solitude. Barely has she arrived, however, when the body of an unidentified woman washes up viruallt at her feet, and Fremont is off on a new and ultimately life-threatening quest: to identity the dead woman. Even the intrepidly unconventional Fremont learns new meanings for the term free spirit from the iconoclasic artists of Carmel - and new depths of love from the mysteriously tormented Michael Archer.
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"Emperor Norton's Ghost"
Doubleday, September 1998, HC
Reviewed on 8/16/00

Two years after the Great Earthquake that destroyed San Francisco, and a year after the bitter misunderstanding that almost destroyed their budding romance, Fremont Jones and Michael Archer are back in the City by the Bay, this time committed to being "partners in life and work." Their life is shared as equals, and their work is the private investigations agency they have opened together, but - not suprisingly, where Fremont is concerned - it's sometimes difficult to seperate the two. In fact, it's her friendship with a slightly flighty, pretty, and troubled young woman that gets Fremont involved in her first murder investigation. Frances McFadden is besotted with spiritualism, and the curious but skeptical Fremont agrees to accompany her to a séance. When Frances's husband finds out about their adventure, her punishment is both degrading and galvanizing at once. Then two mediums are murdered, Frances begins to discover her own talent for telepathy and takes a lover, and Fremont becomes dangerously embroiled in her friend's illicit liaison. While Fremony hones her investigative skills, she also comes to a new appreciation of Michael's professional talents and his other special qualities as well.
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"Death Train to Boston"
Doubleday, October 1999, HC
Reviewed on 8/16/00

Fremont Jones and her "partner in love and work," Michael Archer, have been hired to look into a series of petty vandalisms plaguing the Southern Pacific Railroad. They are riding a train incognito when it is blown to smithereens just east of Salt Lake City. Michael, luckily, suffers only a broken collorbone, but Fremont simply disappears. Holding stubbornly to her belief that she is still alive, Michael sets out to find her. Meanwhile, Fremont, with a serious head injury and two broken legs, has been spirited away from the site of the explosion by a dark and imperious rescuer - Melancthon Pratt, a devout and dictorial Morman who already claims five wives and is bent on making Fremont his sixth. Awakening in Pratt's remote cabin, confused and completely dependent on her capture, Fremont can only concentrate on devising a mode of escape. Find out how she manages to get away and how Michael is finally reunited with his partner, while being pursued not only by a former rival in the world of international espionage, but also by his and Fremont's would-be killer.
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Books by Robin Paige
Victorian England Mysteries

1. "Death at Bishop's Keep" 2. "Death at Gallows Green" 3. "Death at Daisy's Folly"
4. "Death at Devil's Bridge" 5. "Death at Rottingham" 6. "Death at Whitechapel"
7. "Death at Epsom Downs"

Victorian England Mysteries
1. "Death at Bishop's Keep"	2. "Death at Gallows Green"	3. "Death at Daisy's Folly"
4. "Death at Devil's Bridge"	5. "Death at Rottingham"	6. "Death at Whitechapel"
7. "Death at Epsom Downs"

"Death at Bishop's Keep"
Berkley Prime Crime Book, October 1994; July 1998
Reviewed on 6/8/00

Kathryn Arleigh is everything the Victorian English gentlewoman is not - outspoken, freethinking, American... and a writer of the frowned upon "penny-dreadfuls." When Kate arrives in Essex, England, she shocks the household at Bishop's Keep - and captures the interest of amateur detective Sir Charles Sheridan as they begin their first case together. A dead body has been uncovered at a nearby archaeological dig. The investigation provides the perfect research for Kate's fiction. But the curious writer may be digging too deep - especially when the trail leads her into a secret occult society known as the Order of the Golden Dawn.
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"Death at Gallows Green"
Berkley Prime Crime Book, 1995; December 1998
Reviewed on 7/9/00

Kathryn Ardleigh is everything the Victorian English gentlewoman is not - outspoken, free-thinking, American... and a writer of the frowned upon "penny-dreadfuls." She shocked her ancestral home at Bishop's Keep - and captured the interest of detective Sir Charles Sheridan as they solved their first case together. Now the brutal demise of a local constable and the mysterious disappearance of a child have the sleuthing couple on the trail of deadly greed and criminal mischief once again. And with the help of a shy young woman who calls herself Beatrix Potter, Kate intends to uncover the sinister secrets of Gallows Green.
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"Death at Daisy's Folly"
Berkley Prime Crime Book, February 1997
Reviewed on 7/9/00

Sir Charles Sheridan is many things - an amateur scientist, a reknown photographer, and a skilled detective. And due to Victorian customs, he will soon become a baron - rendering him unable to marry Kate Ardleigh, an American writer of the popular, yet frowned upon "penny-dreadfuls." Even as the customs of the time keep them apart, a good murder case always seems to bring them together. The Countess of Warwick, known affectionately as "Daisy," is the subject of endless rumors about her "unladylike" ways and temperament. But what happens during a weekend party at her Easton estate is uglier than any rumor. First, a stableboy is killed. Then a nobleman is murdered outside Daisy's well-known trysting spot. A murderer is on the grounds - and on the loose. Seeking to avoid scandal, the Prince of Wales orders Sir Charles to solve the case. Together, he and Miss Ardleigh find that even the highest levels of society are no refuge from the lowest of deeds.
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"Death at Devil's Bridge"
Berkley Prime Crime Book, February 1998
Reviewed on 7/9/00

Together they solved the murders at the Countess of Warwick's weekend house... and together they fell in love. Now newlyweds Charles and Kate Sheridan have moved into Kate's ancestral Georgian home Bishop's Keep, where Kate plans to devote herself to her writing and Charles to the responsibilities of the landed gentry. He agrees to host an automobile exhibition and balloon race at Bishop's Keep attended by Europe's foremost investors and inventors, among them the young Mr. Charles Rolls and Henry Royce. But speed, competition, and money prove to be more explosive than gasoline - and for one automobile builder, more deadly.
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"Death at Rottingdean"
Berkley Prime Crime Book, March 1999
Reviewed on 8/5/00

For Kathryn Ardleigh and her newly Lorded husband, Charles, a seaside holiday in Rottingdean is a much-needed respite. Known as Smuggler's Village, the cozy hamlet sits upon a labyrinth of hundred-year-old tunnels through which contraband goods were once smuggled in and out of England. But when the body of a coast guard is found on the beach, the couple suspect the town is still plying the illicit trades of its past. And with the help pf an imaginative young writer named Rudyard Kipling, they're about to discover that something 's rotten in the town of Rottingdean.
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"Death at Whitechapel"
Berkley Prime Crime Book, February 2000
Reviewed on 8/5/00

Kathryn Ardleigh is becoming accustomed to the high-society circles of her recently Lorded husband Charles Sheridan. And she has found a kindred spirit in Jennie Jerome Churchill, whose carefree lifestyle has made her a frequent topic in the tabloids. But there is a more serious scandal threatening Jennie - and the politcal future of her son Winston. She is being blackmailed by someone who has made a heinous accusation - someone who claims to have proof that Winston's father was none other than the notorious Jack the Ripper.
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"Silver Pigs" Crown Publishers, Inc, 1989, HC Reviewed on 5/6/01
		Down the mean alleys of ancient Rome, Marcus Didius Falco is the Empire's Philip Marlowe - streetwise, tough, too honest for his own good, and a sucker for a pretty face. Falco is a private detective operating in the Emperor Vespasian's Rome. Being a frequent recipient of female clients' favors after particularly trying cases, Falco is delighted when the young, beautiful, and blond Sosia Camillina runs into him, quite literally, in the Forum one day. He is less delighted when he discovers that Sosia is being chased by two street hoodlums who apparently intend her no good. Taking matters in hand, Falco effects a hasty and chaotic retreat with his young charge back to his rooftop aerie in a grimy tenement, where a real threat lurks: his fierce mother, who has no qualms about evicting the various loose women in his life during her daily sweeps. Falco learns that Sosia was being chased because of her knowledge of the hiding place of some silver pigs - lead ingots bearing silver - that are being smuggled into Rome to fund a plot against the Emperor. Sosia is the neice of a well-heeled senator, and Falco is thrilled at the possibility of upgrading his social life when the senator, Decimus Camillus, offers him a job to uncover the plot. Falco's subsequent discoveries draw him inexorably into the heart of treachery and conspiracy at the highest levels, and lead him further into a labyrinth of political greed, danger, and love.
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"The Strange Files of Fremont Jones" Doubleday, April 1995, HC Reviewed on 8/5/00
		When proper Bostonian and wellesley graduate Fremont (née Caroline) Jones buys a train ticket to San Francisco to escape her stepmother's meddlesome matchmaking and embark on a career as an independent "type-writer," she surely knows she is headed for adventure. Well-brought-up young ladies simply don't do that sort of thing in 1905. But she soon discovers that her new career may involve more excitement than she bargained for. Certainly she had never intended to become personlly embroiled in the lives of her clients. First there is Justin Cameron, the dashingly handsome and somewhat fackless young lawyer, whose charm almost sweeps Fremont off her feet and lands her in mortal danger. Then there is the the strangely disturbed and wildly frightened Edgar Allan Partridge, whose phantasmagoric autobiographical manuscript sends her on a mission of discovery up the California coast. And finally there is the elegant and deferntial Li Wong, whose untimely death is linked to the paper Fremont typed for him, the content of which she cannot recall.
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"Fire and Fog" Doubleday, July 1996, HC Reviewed on 8/8/00
		Awakened by a terrible rumbling and nearly crushed by a falling armoire, Fremont Jones finds herself in the midst of the Great San Francisco Earthquake. In the confusion and devastion of the ensuing fires, Fremont learns to drive an automobile, finds herself pursed by two ardent suitors, comes to have disturbingly romantic feelings toward her sleuthing cohort, the mysterious Michael Archer, becomes invovled with murderous smugglers, and makes a discovery that almost cost her her life.
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"The Bohemian Murders" Doubleday, July 1997, HC Reviewed on 8/8/00
		Forced to leave San Francisco after the devastating earthquake of 1906, Fremont Jones is finally willing to follow her heart - and her elusive suitor, Michael Archer - to the bohemian beach community of Carmel-by-the-Sea. But she finds Michael utterly changed and, apparently, otherwise engaged. Heartbroken, confused - and furious - Fremont accepts a position as temporary keeper of the Point Piños lighthouse, determined to carry on her typewriting business part-time and nurse her wounds in solitude. Barely has she arrived, however, when the body of an unidentified woman washes up viruallt at her feet, and Fremont is off on a new and ultimately life-threatening quest: to identity the dead woman. Even the intrepidly unconventional Fremont learns new meanings for the term free spirit from the iconoclasic artists of Carmel - and new depths of love from the mysteriously tormented Michael Archer.
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"Emperor Norton's Ghost" Doubleday, September 1998, HC Reviewed on 8/16/00
		Two years after the Great Earthquake that destroyed San Francisco, and a year after the bitter misunderstanding that almost destroyed their budding romance, Fremont Jones and Michael Archer are back in the City by the Bay, this time committed to being "partners in life and work." Their life is shared as equals, and their work is the private investigations agency they have opened together, but - not suprisingly, where Fremont is concerned - it's sometimes difficult to seperate the two. In fact, it's her friendship with a slightly flighty, pretty, and troubled young woman that gets Fremont involved in her first murder investigation. Frances McFadden is besotted with spiritualism, and the curious but skeptical Fremont agrees to accompany her to a séance. When Frances's husband finds out about their adventure, her punishment is both degrading and galvanizing at once. Then two mediums are murdered, Frances begins to discover her own talent for telepathy and takes a lover, and Fremont becomes dangerously embroiled in her friend's illicit liaison. While Fremony hones her investigative skills, she also comes to a new appreciation of Michael's professional talents and his other special qualities as well.
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"Death Train to Boston" Doubleday, October 1999, HC Reviewed on 8/16/00
		Fremont Jones and her "partner in love and work," Michael Archer, have been hired to look into a series of petty vandalisms plaguing the Southern Pacific Railroad. They are riding a train incognito when it is blown to smithereens just east of Salt Lake City. Michael, luckily, suffers only a broken collorbone, but Fremont simply disappears. Holding stubbornly to her belief that she is still alive, Michael sets out to find her. Meanwhile, Fremont, with a serious head injury and two broken legs, has been spirited away from the site of the explosion by a dark and imperious rescuer - Melancthon Pratt, a devout and dictorial Morman who already claims five wives and is bent on making Fremont his sixth. Awakening in Pratt's remote cabin, confused and completely dependent on her capture, Fremont can only concentrate on devising a mode of escape. Find out how she manages to get away and how Michael is finally reunited with his partner, while being pursued not only by a former rival in the world of international espionage, but also by his and Fremont's would-be killer.
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"Death at Bishop's Keep" Berkley Prime Crime Book, October 1994; July 1998 Reviewed on 6/8/00
		Kathryn Arleigh is everything the Victorian English gentlewoman is not - outspoken, freethinking, American... and a writer of the frowned upon "penny-dreadfuls." When Kate arrives in Essex, England, she shocks the household at Bishop's Keep - and captures the interest of amateur detective Sir Charles Sheridan as they begin their first case together. A dead body has been uncovered at a nearby archaeological dig. The investigation provides the perfect research for Kate's fiction. But the curious writer may be digging too deep - especially when the trail leads her into a secret occult society known as the Order of the Golden Dawn.
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"Death at Gallows Green" Berkley Prime Crime Book, 1995; December 1998 Reviewed on 7/9/00
		Kathryn Ardleigh is everything the Victorian English gentlewoman is not - outspoken, free-thinking, American... and a writer of the frowned upon "penny-dreadfuls." She shocked her ancestral home at Bishop's Keep - and captured the interest of detective Sir Charles Sheridan as they solved their first case together. Now the brutal demise of a local constable and the mysterious disappearance of a child have the sleuthing couple on the trail of deadly greed and criminal mischief once again. And with the help of a shy young woman who calls herself Beatrix Potter, Kate intends to uncover the sinister secrets of Gallows Green.
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"Death at Daisy's Folly" Berkley Prime Crime Book, February 1997 Reviewed on 7/9/00
		Sir Charles Sheridan is many things - an amateur scientist, a reknown photographer, and a skilled detective. And due to Victorian customs, he will soon become a baron - rendering him unable to marry Kate Ardleigh, an American writer of the popular, yet frowned upon "penny-dreadfuls." Even as the customs of the time keep them apart, a good murder case always seems to bring them together. The Countess of Warwick, known affectionately as "Daisy," is the subject of endless rumors about her "unladylike" ways and temperament. But what happens during a weekend party at her Easton estate is uglier than any rumor. First, a stableboy is killed. Then a nobleman is murdered outside Daisy's well-known trysting spot. A murderer is on the grounds - and on the loose. Seeking to avoid scandal, the Prince of Wales orders Sir Charles to solve the case. Together, he and Miss Ardleigh find that even the highest levels of society are no refuge from the lowest of deeds.
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"Death at Devil's Bridge" Berkley Prime Crime Book, February 1998 Reviewed on 7/9/00
		Together they solved the murders at the Countess of Warwick's weekend house... and together they fell in love. Now newlyweds Charles and Kate Sheridan have moved into Kate's ancestral Georgian home Bishop's Keep, where Kate plans to devote herself to her writing and Charles to the responsibilities of the landed gentry. He agrees to host an automobile exhibition and balloon race at Bishop's Keep attended by Europe's foremost investors and inventors, among them the young Mr. Charles Rolls and Henry Royce. But speed, competition, and money prove to be more explosive than gasoline - and for one automobile builder, more deadly.
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"Death at Rottingdean" Berkley Prime Crime Book, March 1999 Reviewed on 8/5/00
		For Kathryn Ardleigh and her newly Lorded husband, Charles, a seaside holiday in Rottingdean is a much-needed respite. Known as Smuggler's Village, the cozy hamlet sits upon a labyrinth of hundred-year-old tunnels through which contraband goods were once smuggled in and out of England. But when the body of a coast guard is found on the beach, the couple suspect the town is still plying the illicit trades of its past. And with the help pf an imaginative young writer named Rudyard Kipling, they're about to discover that something 's rotten in the town of Rottingdean.
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"Death at Whitechapel" Berkley Prime Crime Book, February 2000 Reviewed on 8/5/00
		Kathryn Ardleigh is becoming accustomed to the high-society circles of her recently Lorded husband Charles Sheridan. And she has found a kindred spirit in Jennie Jerome Churchill, whose carefree lifestyle has made her a frequent topic in the tabloids. But there is a more serious scandal threatening Jennie - and the politcal future of her son Winston. She is being blackmailed by someone who has made a heinous accusation - someone who claims to have proof that Winston's father was none other than the notorious Jack the Ripper.
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