Murders and Other Confusions Style:Clothbound While locked rooms have been

While locked rooms have been around since Edgar Allan Poe

but they have a more subtle level

His pieces range from supernaturally-tinged tales to the gritty tales of middle-class sabotage

Hoch’s ladies were often faced with seemingly impossible crimes – throat cutting in a locked room

They are also explorations of a culture and a time and place

Murders and Other Confusions Style:Clothbound While locked rooms have beenMURDERS MOST FOUL (And Other Execrable Crimes) Susanna, Lady Appleton was a gentlewoman, a herbalist (author of A Cautionary Herbal, being a compendium of plants harmful to the health) and an expert crime solver during the reigns of Mary I and Elizabeth I, Queens of England during the turbulent 16th century. It was a time when religious differences were fought with the sword and the torture chamber, and an ardent Protestant could be burned at the