Her Highness' First Murder
Peg Herring,Hardcover,Series: A Simon and Elizabeth Mystery Series, English-language edition,Pub by Gale Cengage Learning
Peg Herring,Hardcover,Series: A Simon and Elizabeth Mystery Series, English-language edition,Pub by Gale Cengage Learning
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781410425409 (1410425401)
Publish date: April 16th 2010
Publisher: Thorndike Press
Pages no: 513
Edition language: English
A Simon & Elizabeth Mystery : Book One.Setting: Hampstead Castle, LondonTime: 1546Main characters: Elizabeth Tudor (daughter of Henry VIII, future Elizabeth I, Queen of England) - age 13; Simon Malden, son of the court physician at Hampstead Castle, age 14; Hugh Bellows, captain of the Welsh Guard.F...
Pretty good plotting and character development, and the author appears to have done a lot of research on the minutiae of the period, but for me the story was really hurt by a couple of glaring historical errors that completely brought me out of it. 1) a reference to Henry VIII's illegitimate son, wh...