Face Down in the Marrow-Bone Pie

By Kathy Lynn Emerson

Book Overview

Lady Susanna takes advantage of her husband's trip to France to look into the mysterious death of their steward, and must unmask a supposed ghost to find the truth about how John Bexwith was poisoned and who was responsible. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312151233
• ISBN13: 9780312151232
• Release Date: March 1997
• Publisher: Minotaur Books
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

Somewhat disappointed

Going by the title and cover illustration, I expected a mildly funny story. It was more a treatise on the times which is fine if that's what you want. Also, I didn't care for the primary characters. I'm sure many will like it a lot but I didn't.

Very good!

The cover art and the title did not seem promising but I was pleasantly surprised by this well-written Medieval mystery. The characters, especially Lady Appleton, seemed very real. Like another reviewer noticed, the author spilled the beans too early (Chapter 4) but it was still an exciting ending even though I knew who the perp was.

England, Reign of Elizabeth I

Emerson's wonderfully complex character lives in a time of intrigues, secrets, and simmering unrest between Catholic France and Protestant England, and between England's secret "papists" and followers of the "New Religion." Restless Lady Susanna is anything but the socially acceptable compliant wife when she, over her husband Sir Robert's objections, travels from her home in Kent to the cold North to investigate the murder...

Won't disappoint you

Fun romp through another time period. Lady Appleton, married to a womanizing prigg, spends her time solving murder cases. She's an only child, which was the cause for her unusal education (for a girl that is). i. e. She was the son her father never had. She not overly attractive either, which is a break from the norm. Luckly, she's got brains out the wazo and her husband is often away from home (being a spy and all) so...

Great Fun

What a wonderful surprise! It's refreshing to find an author who really knows her history. The main character, Susanna, is a very unusual woman, in that her father pampered her by allowing his daughter the education that would normally only be appropriate for a boy. Poor Sir Robert, to have to put up with a wife who can run the family business better than him, take care of the household, and research and write a book on deadly...