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Her Highness' First Murder (Simon & Elizabeth, Bk 1)
Her Highness' First Murder - Simon & Elizabeth, Bk 1 Author:Peg Herring In London several beautiful women are found dead‚ their heads missing and their blood-soaked corpses dressed as nuns. The first victims are prostitutes‚ but later murders demonstrate that high-born women are in danger too. As the body count rises‚ terror reigns. — When one of her own ladies becomes a victim‚ the Princess E... more »lizabeth decides to act. To bring the killer to justice she recruits Simon‚ a crippled young man who sometimes keeps her company‚ and Hugh‚ a captain of her father’s trusted Welsh Guard. Since the king would be furious if he knew his daughter was aiding a murder investigation‚ Elizabeth’s involvement is a secret among the three of them. Together they work to discover who is killing women and why.
Set in 1546, the main characters are Elizabeth Tudor (daughter of Henry VIII, future Elizabeth I, Queen of England) - age 13; Simon Malden, son of the court physician at Hampstead Castle, age 14; and Hugh Bellows, captain of the Welsh Guard
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