The Siren Queen: An Ursula Blanchard Mystery at Queen Elizabeth I's (38 page)
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Authors: Fiona Buckley
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This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Copyright © 2004 by Fiona Buckley
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Buckley, Fiona.
The siren queen: an Ursula Blanchard mystery at Queen Elizabeth I’s court/Fiona Buckley.
1. Blanchard, Ursula (Fictitious character)—Fiction. 2. Great Britain—History—Elizabeth, 1558–1603—Fiction. 3. Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533–1603—Fiction. 4. Women detectives—England—Fiction. 5. Courts and courtiers—Fiction. 6. Conspiracies—Fiction. 7. Queens—Fiction. I. Title.
PR6052.U266S57 2004
823’.914—dc22
2004045284
ISBN 0-7432-3752-8
ISBN 978-1-4391-3914-1 (eBook)
Chapter 1: The Perils of Passion
Chapter 2: A Fashion for Marriage
Chapter 3: Old Age and a Pomander
Chapter 5: The Significance of a Cipher
Chapter 6: Brown and Muted Yellow
Chapter 10: The Parents of the Groom
Chapter 12: The House by the River
Chapter 13: Where the Swans Are
Chapter 14: Skulking in the Alders
Chapter 15: Herbal Concoctions
Chapter 17: Capricious Fortune
Chapter 19: “When Mary Is on the Throne”
Chapter 20: One Single Sentence
Chapter 22: The Queen’s Sweet Robin
