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Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Named after a character in a Shakespeare play, misfit sixth-grader Hero becomes interested in exploring this unusual connection because of a valuable diamond supposedly hidden in her new house, an intriguing neighbor, and the unexpected attention of the most popular boy in school.
Author
Series
Shakespeare stealer volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
A young orphan boy is ordered by his master to infiltrate Shakespeare's acting troupe in order to steal the script of "Hamlet," but he discovers instead the meaning of friendship and loyalty.
Author
Series
Publisher
Crème de la Crime
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
August, 1582. The queen’s spymaster, Sir Francis Walsingham, has ordered Ursula to keep an eye on her new neighbour, Giles Frost, who is rumoured to be spying for King Philip of Spain. Arriving at Knoll House on the pretext of teaching his two daughters embroidery, Ursula’s secret mission is to feed false information to Frost to pass on to the Spanish. Walsingham has assured Ursula that she’ll be in no danger. But events take a decidedly sinister...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
When Queen Elizabeth's favored lutenist falls to his death from a parapet at Richmond Palace, she at first suspects an accident brought on by too much drink. However, members of her "Privy Plot Council" (Meg the herbalist, Ned the actor, Jenks the stable hand, et al.) begin sleuthing into the numerous intrigues at court. Not until another near-fatal "accident" occurs does Elizabeth, besotted with the married but charming and seductive Robert Dudley,...
6) Assassin
Author
Series
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Lady Grace Cavendish, favorite maid of honor of Elizabeth I, must solve a murder mystery and clear the name of her betrothed.
Author
Series
Publisher
Creme de la Crime
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"February, 1586. When the queen's spymaster, Sir Francis Walsingham, learns that Ursula is to visit her relatives in Devon, he asks her to find out what has happened to two of his local agents, who have been strangely silent recently. On arrival in the small Devon village of Zeal Aquatico, Ursula discovers that both spies in question have met with mysterious--and fatal--accidents. Or is there more to it than that? What did the two spies find out that...
Author
Series
Nicholas Bracewell mysteries volume 12
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Author
Series
Sir Robert Carey mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Language
English
Description
Newly appointed to his post as Deputy Warden of the West March, Sir Robert Carey encounters his first challenge when a lad is found dead.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
On May 30, 1593, London's most popular playwright was stabbed to death. The royal coroner ruled that Christopher Marlowe was killed in self-defense, but historians have long suspected otherwise, given his role as an "intelligencer" in the queen's secret service. In sixteenth-century London, Marlowe embarks on his final intelligence assignment, hoping to find his missing muse, as well as the culprits behind a high-stakes smuggling scheme. In present-day...
Author
Series
Sir Robert Carey mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2000, c1998
Language
English
13) The Fyre Mirror
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Elizabeth I wants to approve an "official" portrait for distribution in the realm. Three portrait contenders accompany Elizabeth and the court to the mythical Nonsuch Palace, where an arsonist's fire consumes an artist's tent and its two occupants. Elizabeth leaps into action, has the corpses and tents examined, prods her "privy plot council" into motion, and confronts further acts of the pyromaniac
Author
Series
Sir Robert Carey mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
September 1592 - and the redoubtable Sergeant Dodd is still in London with that dashing courtier Sir Robert Carey, dealing with the fall-out from their earlier adventures. Carey urgently needs to get back to Carlisle where he is the Deputy Warden and the raiding season is about to begin.
Author
Series
Ursula Blanchard mysteries volume 16
Publisher
Crème de la Crime, an imprint of Severn House Publishers
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"March, 1581. Queen Elizabeth is once again being urged to consider marriage to the Duke of Alenc̦on, a French Catholic twenty years her junior. The prospect of the match is causing unrest throughout the kingdom. Ursula however has more immediate matters to worry about when her 9-year-old son is snatched away while out riding. If she is ever to see him again, Ursula must undertake an impossibly difficult and dangerous mission - and commit an act...
16) The queen's head
Author
Series
Nicholas Bracewell mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Author
Series
Nicholas Bracewell mysteries volume 14
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Author
Series
Nicholas Bracewell mysteries volume 13
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
When Lord Westerfield's Men are stricken by an unexpected disaster during a packed performance on the Kent countryside, Nicholas Bracewell investigates a clown's prediction about the end of the troupe.
19) The Tudor secret
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
In sixteenth-century England, Brendan Prescott enters a world of danger and lies when he reluctantly agrees to work as a double agent for Princess Elizabeth's protector, William Cecil.
Author
Series
Nicholas Bracewell mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2001], c1992
Language
English