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Death of a Duchess - Elizabeth Eyre
1991 English hardback first edition, 1st impression, Headline, London A near book in near fine unclipped (£14.95) dust jacket No names, inscriptions. Warehouse damage stamp to rear pastedown, hidden by DJ flap Tightly bound and square, usual Hodder edge tanning The jacket has no loss or tears Sigismondo looks into the kidnapping of a girl, set in the time of the Medici and the Borgias, great historical mystery fiction A nice clean copy of an uncommon title by Jill Staynes and Margaret Storey For Sale at £13 (approx $22) *P6 - free delivery worldwide ! |
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Not one of the servants seemed ready to oppose this. To sleep soundly at a legitimate hour was, after all, the mark not of laziness but of exhaustion brought on by virtuous toil. The emissary replaced the scent bottle, pushed askew with a finger the other objects on the chest - a pair of silver tweezers, an ivory comb, a Book of Hours in a red velvet cover, a carved ivory mirror with a bronze nymph for handle - and picked up the silver posset cup, removed the lid, and sniffed at it. The servants followed every action with the acute interest they would have given to a mime. 'You think she was drugged?' Jacopo pounced on the idea. 'Was that why we did not hear her?* He seemed relieved that his daughter had not suffered the frustration of crying out unheard. 'Ah. No. No one in this household . . . ' Indignant agreement from the servants drowned out what promised to be an inconclusive remark in any case. A drug must be introduced by some hostile hand. The heavy shoulders shrugged, and the emissary indicated, with a movement more economical than Jacopo's, the bed. A drugged girl might scarcely be capable of putting up such a fight. Brocade bed-curtains, of green and gold, sagged at the far side, ripped from the half tester. 'The dogs slept too?' |
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