Orion, 2006. — 187 p. — ISBN: 0752881000; ISBN13: 9780752881003. When a nun is found dead in Jemima Shore's own convent school, she can't resist the invitation to investigate. She soon discovers that the dead nun, Sister Miriam, was once Rosabelle Powerstock, heiress to one of the largest fortunes in Britain.
W. W. Norton Company, 1980. — 196 p. — ISBN: 039333189X; ISBN13: 9780393331899. Here, Jemima Shore, investigator and TV personality, arrives at Inverness Station for a Highland holiday. The sun is shining. Paradise, she thinks. But at that moment, she hears a voice: "All this way for a funeral." So begins an adventure far removed from Jemima's visions of heather-covered hills,...
W. W. Norton Company, 1990. — 240 p. — ISBN: 0393316874; ISBN13: 9780393316872. Back in print—Antonia Fraser's third Jemima Shore mystery, in which the intrepid and glamorous detective confronts sinister doings in a Bloomsbury penthouse. Everyone loved Chloe Fontaine. Tiny and exquisitely pretty, her fragile looks hid a considerable talent as a novelist. She had had a series of...
W. W. Norton Company, 1985. — 222 p. — ISBN: 0393302644; ISBN13: 9780393302646. Christabel Cartwright, a celebrated actress, had left her luxurious country house, its staff of servants, and her husband for a reckless affair. She thought she could come back without penalty. She also thought she could resume her career by starring in two plays. Her director was delighted, as was...
W. W. Norton Company, 1998. — 224 p. — ISBN: 0393318249; ISBN13: 9780393318241. In this tale Jemima is reluctantly shooting a TV exposé — "Golden Lads and Girls" — on the exotic lifestyles of overprivileged undergraduates. Among them is Lord Saffron, the wealthy, twenty-year-old heir to the former foreign secretary. When a confession by a dying midwife throws Saffron's birth...
Bantam, 1989. — 272 p. — ISBN: 0553280198; ISBN13: 9780553280197. Pomp and chilling circumstance combine when a bizarre group of animal-rightists kidnap a royal bride-to-be on the eve of her wedding, and Jemima Shore, now a freelance commentator for American television, races against time to rescue the princess bride.
Crimeline, 1992. — 256 p. — ISBN: 0553295446; ISBN13: 9780553295443. Bestselling author Fraser combines her passion for history with her wickedly readable fiction in her most glittering Jemima Shore mystery yet. It seems a 17-century viscount has been stepping out of his portrait--just before the violent death of his 16th successor. While a bitter family feud ensues and the...
Crimeline, 1997. — 240 p. — ISBN: 0553572032; ISBN13: 9780553572032. When the wayward lady Imogen Swain summons journalist Jemima Shore to her home, Jemima once again finds herself in the thick of love affairs--old and new--intrigue, and betrayal. For the colorful Lady Imogen kept diaries documenting her passionate affair with a rising young politician who has since risen to...
Bantam, 1993. — 174 p. — ISBN: 0553092979; ISBN13: 9780553092974. A collection of Antonia Fraser's compelling stories exploring the dark hearts and lethal secrets of criminals. This collection features the tale of the jealous wife who engineers revenge for the lovers who wronged her.
Orion Children's, 2012. — 256 p. — ASIN B00AJ20HBQ. Robin Hood, Maid Marion, Little John, Friar Tuck and the rest of the Merry Men of Sherwood Forest are all here, in stories packed with excitement, drama and romance. Antonia Fraser's masterly retelling is a classic.
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