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Unnatural Murder: Poison at the Court of James I

Unnatural Murder: Poison at the Court of James I

by Lady Anne Somerset (Author)

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    Hardcover 1997

    $4.19

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    Paperback 2004

    $3.25
Synopsis

Anew interpretation by a direct descendant of a notorious murder based on original documents:a tale of love ,bribery,poison,treachery and retribution in Jacobean england.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 434
 Edition: First Edition
 Publisher: W&N
Published: 13 Jan 1997
ISBN 10: 0297813102
ISBN 13: 9780297813101

Media Reviews
Wonderfully dramatic ... Probably the juiciest court scandal of the past 500 years. Anne Somerset writes so freshly that her characters strut before us as if they lived today. A gripping detective story that tells us more about the corruption, debauchery and naked power-plays of 17th century life than anything I have read -- Christopher Hudson * DAILY MAIL *
This is by far the most comprehensive account I have read of the Overbury scandal, combining a firm mastery of complex sources with a narrative drive that impels the reader to turn the page. It is also quite one the best historical whodunnits -- Roy Strong * SUNDAY TIMES *
Anne Somerset gives us scandal in high places, as well as insights into a seamy underworld of quacks and witches, hustlers and go-betweens; her subsidiary characters stand comparison with Ben Jonson's most outrageous rascals ... Both history and whodunnit, this is a hugely enjoyable book -- Lucy Hughes-Hallet * DAILY TELEGRAPH *
A sordid yet fascinating story which Anne Somerset delineates with great skill -- Antonia Fraser * THE TIMES *
Anne Somerset shows skill and stamina in telling her lurid tale....This book consolidates her position in the front rank of historical biographers for the general reader -- John Jolliffe * COUNTRY LIFE *
A fine and absorbing book, based on fresh scholarship and fresh thinking and deserving both a lay and professional readership -- Blair Worden * THE SPECTATOR *
This marvellous account of a real-life episode in 1615 bristles with ingredients Webster would have recognised and loved -- Max Davidson * DAILY TELGRAPH *
Deals in a scholarly but ever readable way with a fascinating historical nugget. This is a book about murder, witchcraft, adultery, lechery, intrigue and chicanery among the country's most powerful nobility -- Steve Grant * TIME OUT *
Scrupulously researched, her account of the Overbury scandal illuminates the machinations and intrigues which passed for government in Jacobean England * SUNDAY TIMES *
Author Bio
Anne Somerset was born in 1955 and read History at King's College London.Her first book, published in 1980, was The Life and Times of William IV.This was followed by Ladies-in-Waiting: From the Tudors to the Present Day and an acclaimed biography, Elizabeth I. Her most recent work was the bestselling Unnatural Murder, an account of the sensational Overbury murder which was shortlisted fro the Crime Writers Association Gold Dagger award for non-fiction. Anne Somerset is married and lives in London with her husband and daughter.