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The final volume of the critically acclaimed mystery series featuring Jane Austen as amateur sleuthMarch 1817: As winter turns to spring, Jane Austen’s health is in slow decline, and threatens to cease progress on her latest manuscript. But when her nephew Edward brings chilling news of a death at his former school, Winchester College, not even her debilitating ailment can keep Jane from seeking out the truth. Arthur Prendergast, a senior pupi...

The final volume of the fan-favorite and critically acclaimed Being a Jane Austen mystery seriesSince the publication of Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor, the first novel in the Being a Jane Austen mystery series, Stephanie Barron has offered readers a pitch-perfect rendering of the great author as indomitable amateur sleuth. The series’ fifteen novels have brought to life fifteen years of Jane’s career and Regency milieu, infusi...

If you have a Jane Austen-would-have-been-my-best-friend complex, look no further . . . [Barron] has painstakingly sifted through the famed author's letters and writings, as well as extensive biographical information, to create a finely detailed portrait of Austen's life-with a dash of fictional murder . . . Some of the most enjoyable, well-written fanfic ever created."-O Magazine May 1816: Jane Austen is feeling unwell, with an uneasy stomach...

If you have a Jane Austen-would-have-been-my-best-friend complex, look no further . . . [Barron] has painstakingly sifted through the famed author's letters and writings, as well as extensive biographical information, to create a finely detailed portrait of Austen's life-with a dash of fictional murder . . . Some of the most enjoyable, well-written fanfic ever created."-O Magazine May 1816: Jane Austen is feeling unwell, with an uneasy stomach...

The Paris Wife meets PBS's Victoria in this enthralling novel of the life and loves of one of history's most remarkable women: Winston Churchill's scandalous American mother, Jennie Jerome. Wealthy, privileged, and fiercely independent New Yorker Jennie Jerome took Victorian England by storm when she landed on its shores. As Lady Randolph Churchill, she gave birth to a man who defined the twentieth century: her son Winston. But Jennie-reared i...

Southampton, 1807. Questa volta la curiosità di Jane per i casi intricati è risvegliata da suo fratello Frank che chiede il suo aiuto per salvare la vita all'amico e collega della Marina, il capitano Tom Seagrave, condannato a morte per un omicidio che non avrebbe commesso. Frank è il solo a credere all'amico e ha bisogno del fiuto di sua sorella per portare a galla la verità. Per i due investigatori inizia un viaggio attraverso i meandri più ...

Coinciding with the touring exhibition Sound Speed Marker, this richly illustrated volume includes all three components of Hubbard/Birchler's newest trilogy of video installations as well as related photography and sculpture. Four essays and an interview with the artists contribute new scholarship in examining the genesis of the works.

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The Paris Wife meets PBS's Victoria in this enthralling novel of the life and loves of one of history's most remarkable women: Winston Churchill's scandalous American mother, Jennie Jerome. Wealthy, privileged, and fiercely independent New Yorker Jennie Jerome took Victorian England by storm when she landed on its shores. As Lady Randolph Churchill, she gave birth to a man who defined the twentieth century: her son Winston. But Jennie-reared i...

Published in conjunction with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's monumental exhibition Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900-2000, this title charts the dynamic relationship between the arts and popular conceptions of California. It challenges us to reexamine the ways in which the state has been portrayed and imagined.

Three years after news of her scandalous husband's death, Adelaide Fiske is at the altar again, her groom a soldier on the Marquis of Wellington's staff. The prospects seem bright for one of the most notorious women in Kent-until Jane Austen discovers a corpse on the ancient Pilgrim's Way that runs through her brother Edward's estate. As First Magistrate for Canterbury, Edward is forced to investigate, with Jane as his reluctant assistant. But...

In her latest spellbinding escapade, Jane Austen arrives in London to watch over the printing of her first novel, and finds herself embroiled in a crime that could end more than her career. Shes been named the prime suspect in a high-society murder investigation.

Derbyshire, 1806. Jane, in vacanza, sta assaporando il mite clima estivo d'agosto e scoprendo le meraviglie della regione, quando, durante una delle sue passeggiate, trova il cadavere di un giovane uomo, dai boccoli biondi e dal viso bello come quello di un angelo. A sconvolgerla ulteriormente è il coroner che le rivela che non si tratta di un uomo bensì di Tess Arnold, domestica personale di Mr. Charles Danforth di Penfolds Hall, travestita c...

Netley, costa di Southampton, autunno 1808. Jane sta ammirando le rovine abbandonate dell'abbazia di Netley, quando viene raggiunta da un personaggio sconosciuto che, avvolto in grande mantello, le consegna una missiva e si dilegua. Si tratta di un messaggio di Lord Harol Trowbridge, funzionario di Sua Maestà e amico di vecchia data di Jane, che le assegna una pericolosa missione: dovrà contattare e ottenere le confidenze di una sospetta spia ...

È col cuore spezzato che Jane, ancora sconvolta per la morte di Lord Harold Trowbridge, uno dei più importanti funzionari di Sua Maestà, il solo uomo che lei abbia mai amato, si trasferisce con la madre e la sorella Cassandra a Chawton College, nell'Hampshire. Ma ben presto una scoperta sconvolgente la strappa alla speranza di poter ritrovare un po' di pace: Lord Harold, infatti, le ha lasciato in eredità un tesoro inestimabile, un baule conte...

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Jane Austen turns sleuth in this delightful murder mystery set over the twelve days of a Regency-Era Christmas party.Christmas Eve, 1814: Jane Austen has been invited to spend the holiday with family and friends at The Vyne, the gorgeous ancestral home of the wealthy and politically prominent Chute family. As the year fades and friends begin to gather beneath the mistletoe for the twelve days of Christmas festivities, Jane and her circle are i...

Jane Austen turns sleuth in this delightful Regency-era mystery November, 1815. The Battle of Waterloo has come and gone, leaving the British economy in shreds, Henry Austen, high-flying banker, is about to declare bankruptcy-dragging several of his brothers down with him. The crisis destroys Henry's health, and Jane flies to his London bedside, believing him to be dying. While she's there, the chaplain to His Royal Highness the Prince Regent ...