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The Queene's Cure by Karen Harper (2002, Hardcover, Illustrated) 
The Queene's Cure by Karen Harper (2002, Hardcover, Illustrated)

 
The Queene's Cure by Karen Harper (2002, Hardcover, Illustrated)

Author: Karen Harper
Publisher: Delacorte Pr
Publication Date: 2002-03-01
Series: Harper, Karen, Elizabeth I Mystery.
Language: English
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0385334788
ISBN-13: 9780385334785
Product ID: EPID1979465
Description: A mysterious stalker who claims to have the power to produce smallpox stalks young Queen Elizabeth as she strives to reform the Royal College of Physicians.
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Synopsis
A mysterious stalker who claims to have the power to produce smallpox stalks young Queen Elizabeth as she strives to reform the Royal College of Physicians.

Details
Publication Date:2002-03-01
Series:Harper, Karen, Elizabeth I Mystery.
Edition Description:Illustrated

Size
Length:273 pages
Height:8.8 in
Width:6.0 in
Thickness:1.0 in
Weight:14.4 oz

Publisher's Note
Karen Harper’s crowd-pleasing Elizabeth I Mystery series, hailed as “extraordinary” by the Los Angeles Times, continues with this marvelous, majestic novel. The Queene’s Cure transports us into the shadowy world of sixteenth-century medicine, as an enlightened young queen seeks the cures that could heal a realm and transform a land....

In late summer of 1562, within a bedchamber at Whitehall Palace, Elizabeth Tudor prays for the recovery of the delirious, fever-racked friend who has served her for twenty-six of her twenty-nine years. Ten days later, with loyal, handsome Lord Robert Dudley by her side, the queen leads her retinue to London’s Royal College of Physicians to enlist two learned doctors in the raging battle against disease and pestilence.

She knows she has no trusted allies in Peter Pascal and John Caius, ardent Papist sympathizers with long-standing grievances against the Tudors. Yet even the stalwart queen is shaken when a frighteningly lifelike effigy of herself ravaged by pox turns up in her royal coach. Elizabeth’s fear that the counterfeit corpse is a harbinger of impending tragedy comes to fruition when ever more terrifying transgressions penetrate the very heart of her royal precincts.

With the help of her Privy Plot Council and an intriguing healer whose curative arts are at odds with the dangerous Royal College, Elizabeth resolves to unmask a murderer who wears a false face and is beset by the vilest humours of the soul. But when she herself falls ill, an entire realm is caught in the grip of a treasonous conspiracy to take a queen’s life and throne.

Peopled by a rich cast of fascinating figures from the swirling mists of history, The Queene’s Cure brings a vibrant, violent age unforgettably to life. Racing to a chilling climax where ordinary men play God and where Elizabeth Tudor could meet the same fate as her mother, Anne Boleyn, this is a gripping and captivating story of an indomitable young monarch...fighting for her life, her realm, and her rightful crown.

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      Excellent Mystery Series
    Review created: 09/13/06
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    12 of 14 people found this review helpful.

    Queen Elizabeth seeks to revolunize medicine in England. In this quest Queen Elizabeth is stalked by an unknown personage, an effigy shows up depicting Elizabeth with pox scars, a dead body resembling Elizabeth with what appears to be pox scars appears right in the Palace garden. While administering the Queen's cure for a dreaded scourge that only the King's or in this case Queen's touch can cure. Elizabeth has banished her Mistress of Herbs who may help prevent Elizabeth's death from small pox. Will Elizabeth relent in time and call her to her side?

    Based on actual happenings, this mystery series evolves the Privy Council once again struggles to discover the plot to dethrone the Queen.

    If you like historical fiction, you will love this series.


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