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Lord of the Silent is the 13th in a series of historical mystery novels, written by Elizabeth Peters and featuring fictional sleuth and archaeologist Amelia Peabody. It was first published in 2001. The story is set in the 1915–1916 dig season in Egypt.
The eschatology of the book is rather unusual. The end time described by the author does not manifest itself in the normal culmination of a battle, judgment or catastrophe, but rather as "a steady increase of light, [through which] darkness is made to disappear or in which iniquity dissolves and just as the smoke rising into the air eventually dissipates". [5]
Clouds of Witness is a 1926 mystery novel by Dorothy L. Sayers, the second in her series featuring Lord Peter Wimsey. In the United States the novel was first published in 1927 under the title Clouds of Witnesses. [2] [3] It was adapted for television in 1972, as part of a series starring Ian Carmichael as Lord Peter.
The John, the Lord Chamberlain series is a series of historical mystery novels by Mary Reed and Eric Mayer. Also known as the "John the Eunuch" mysteries, the novels feature John, Emperor Justinian 's Lord Chamberlain , a eunuch who solves mysteries in 6th-century Constantinople . [ 1 ]
In the next book, Clouds of Witness, [2] he is summoned to assist the local police in the North Riding of Yorkshire who are investigating the death of Captain Dennis Cathcart, the fiancé of Peter's sister, Lady Mary Wimsey, apparently at the hands of Wimsey's brother, the Duke of Denver. Parker first sees Lady Mary at the inquest into Cathcart.
The latest mystery books from Nita Prose, SJ Bennett, Benjamin Stevenson, and more for getting cozy and reading this holiday season.
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Several of the Lord John books have been released in audiobook form, read by Jeff Woodman. Lord John Grey himself has been called one of Gabaldon's "most complex and interesting" Outlander characters. [4] Publishers Weekly notes Grey to be "a competent and likable sleuth" [5] and a " soldier-hero with secrets of his own."