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The Scarlett Holmes series: A Blue Stocking triumphs.
Scarlett is an academic with the gift of noesis – penetrating perception. She tangles with John Watson.
Scarlett Holmes and the Humanzees
Ilya Ivanovich was a Russian expert at the hybridization of animals It is rumoured that he tried breeding apes with humans. Victorians needed servants and factory hands – obedient workers.
Scarlett Holmes and the Buried Bones
Recently a skeleton, hundreds of years old, was dug up in Hertford Town while relaying a gas main. It was near Old Cross, which has the standing remains of a medieval church archway. Was it a medieval goldsmith working for the St Albans Abbey or a fresh, pagan murder?
The Marin Petruchio series: A medieval James Bond.
Marin is a young medieval merchant venturing in Florence. Italy was leading in trading skills and finance in a time of pugnacious politics, nepotism, sinecures and spectacular art.
The Power of Gunpowder
Marin becomes an intelligencer for an international banker, recruits a courtesan as a spy in Venice and supplies a nobleman with the new gunpowder gonnes for his castle in Tuscany.
The Inquisition
Marin turns the Dominican inquisitors to torture one of their own while he re-