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Eric Mayer
Eric Mayer and wife Mary Reed published several short John the Lord Chamberlain detections in mystery anthologies and in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine prior to 1999's highly acclaimed first full length novel, One For Sorrow. Their protagonist's adventures continued in Two For Joy (2000), a Glyph... show more

Eric Mayer and wife Mary Reed published several short John the Lord Chamberlain detections in mystery anthologies and in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine prior to 1999's highly acclaimed first full length novel, One For Sorrow. Their protagonist's adventures continued in Two For Joy (2000), a Glyph Award winner in the Best Mystery category. Two For Joy also gained an Honorable Mention in the Glyph Best Book Award list and in addition was a finalist for the IPPY Best Mystery Award. Three For A Letter (2001), Four For A Boy (2003), and Five For Silver (2004) followed. The latter two novels were nominees for the Bruce Alexander History Mystery Award. Five For Silver won the 2005 Glyph Award for Best Book Series. In June 2003 the American Library Association's Booklist Magazine named the Lord Chamberlain novels as one of its four Best Little Known Series. Six For Gold appeared in 2005, Seven For A Secret in 2008, Eight For Eternity in 2010, and Nine for the Devil in 2012. In December 2012, A new, revised version of One for Sorrow will be published in the UK and Europe by Head of Zeus.
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Bettie's Books
Bettie's Books rated it 11 years ago
bookshelves: published-2014, net-galley, e-book, winter-20132014, historical-fiction, mystery-thriller, series Read from January 18 to 27, 2014 Netgalley/Poisoned Pen PressDescription: Ambition, intrigue, treachery, murder—another Byzantine mystery…. 548 CE. It’s a hot summer night in Constant...
Expendable Mudge Muses Aloud
Expendable Mudge Muses Aloud rated it 12 years ago
Rating: 3* of five The Book Description: High jinx in the imperial court mixes with lowlife in Constantinople's mean streets..."If the perfect historical mystery is one that uses the past to let us see the present from a new angle, then this is darned close to being the perfect historical mystery."...
A Book and A Review #2
A Book and A Review #2 rated it 14 years ago
This book was AWESOME!! OK, the authors I can guarantee took some artistic liberties with the historical component to the book; however it didn't detract at all from this well written book, which sucked me in from page one. There was phenomenal character development and the book oozed that it was i...
Witty Little Knitter
Witty Little Knitter rated it 15 years ago
In which I am talking to myself:"So Aoife, tell me again: Did you ever read a crime short-story collection (apart from Sherlock Holmes) you actually liked?""Well, there was this one by Pater Tremayne.""And apart from that?""None.""So why exactly did you think you'd like that one?""Because of the con...
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