When Josse discovers wolf's bane in the remnants of the pie, he knows that someone must have tampered with Anne's cooking. He rides off to the scene of the crime and starts his own investigation. Josse has been a regular visitor to Goody Anne's, and he hates to think that Anne-or her fine cooking-has fallen suspect. Josse d'Acquin, a knight with a knack for solving mysteries, is troubled by the news of the stranger's death. But while Anne's serving maid and boy finish up their chores, a man lies dying in the guest chamber-poisoned by a piece of pie made by Goody Anne herself. book.At the end of a dark and dreary market day, Goody Anne's inn at Tonbridge is finally settling down for the night. The pages to Fortune like the Moon are clean but a little age-toned, whilst the pages in the remaining volumes are bright and clean throughout. Externally, very smart with just some light bumping to the head and tail of the spine. In the publisher's original cloth binding, found in the unclipped dust wrapper. The Fortune Like the Moon is smaller than the other two volumes. Comprised of three of the first four volumes in the series, the present collection is set in twelfth century England and features would-be detectives Josse d'Acquin and the Abbess of Hawkenlye. Writing under the pseudonym Alys Clare, Elizabeth Harris is the author of several historical whodunnits including the seventeen novels that constitute the Hawkenlye mysteries. Three first editions of Alys Clare's Hawkenlye's Mysteries, found in their unclipped dust wrappers.
Three first editions of Alys Clare's historical whodunnits featuring detectives Josse d'Acquin and the Abbess of Hawkenlye.
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