![]() Also, one of the effects of the mushrooms' poison is that the victim appears to get better for a time, meaning it is both slow- and fast-acting poison.Perfect Poison: The death cap mushrooms that kill Rosamund in The Serpent's Tale are mixed in with so many different kinds of harmless mushrooms that it's impossible to tell where they came from. ![]() An example of the popular historical-detective genre (think Lindsey Davies’ Falco novels, Paul Doherty’s Egyptian, and Simon Levack’s Aztec series, and the works of Bernard Knight), it is set in 1171 during the reign of Henry II, Angevin king of England. ![]() A few examples are King Henry II, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Princess Joanna, Fair Rosamund Clifford, the Abbot of Eynsham. I just finished Ariana Franklin’s Mistress of the Art of Death, and I heartily recommend it. Historical Domain Character: tons, given this is historical fiction.The four books in the series are The Mistress of the Art of Death, The Serpent's Tale ( The Death Maze in England), Grave Goods ( Relics of the Dead in England), and A Murderous Procession (also published as The Assassin's Prayer). The series follows Adelia Aguilar, a medica and forensic scientist ("doctor to the dead") of Salerno, Sicily, when she is summoned to England to investigate the deaths of four Cambridge children. The Mistress of the Art of Death is the first in a series of four historical mysteries by (sadly now deceased) British author Diana Norman, writing under the pen name Ariana Franklin. ![]()
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