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Editors
  
Maxim Jakubowski

Language
  
English

Media type
  
Print (Hardcover)

Originally published
  
1998

Editor
  
Maxim Jakubowski

Genre
  
Historical mystery

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Country
  
United Kingdom

Publisher
  
Headline Publishing

Pages
  
373

Author
  
Various

Page count
  
373

ISBN
  
0747275017

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Past Poisons: An Ellis Peters Memorial Anthology of Historical Crime is a 1998 British anthology of historical mystery short stories and novellas, edited by Maxim Jakubowski. The collection is named for novelist Ellis Peters, whose Cadfael Chronicles (1977-1994) are generally credited for popularizing the combined genre of historical fiction and mystery fiction that would become known as historical mystery.

Contents

The anthology includes:

  • "A Counter-blast to Tobacco" by Paul C. Doherty
  • "Wheel in the Sky" by Edward D. Hoch
  • "Starstruck at San Simeon" by Janet Laurence
  • "Death by Eros" by Steven Saylor
  • "Damned Spot" by Julian Rathbone
  • "Showman" by Peter Lovesey
  • "The Padder's Lesson" by Molly Brown
  • "To Dispose of an Abbot" by Susanna Gregory
  • "The Mamur Zapt and the Catherine Wheel" by Michael Pearce
  • "The Great Brogonye" by David Howard
  • "The Unkindest Cut" by Kate Ross
  • "Girl Talk" by Marilyn Todd (1st century BC Rome). A Claudia Seferius short story.
  • "Invitation to a Poisoning" by Peter Tremayne
  • "The Last High Queen" by Anne Perry
  • "To Encourage the Others" by Martin Edwards
  • "Psalm for a Dead Disciple" by Edward Marston
  • "Handsel Monday" by Catherine Aird
  • "An Academic Question" by John Maddox Roberts (51 BC Athens). This short story is an installment of the SPQR series, set immediately prior to the novel The Princess and the Pirates (2005).
  • Hellfire (Lord John and the Hellfire Club) by Diana Gabaldon (Late 1750s England). This novella is the first work in the Lord John series, a spin-off of the supporting character Lord John Grey from Gabaldon's Outlander series of historical novels.
  • "The Party May Yet be Living" by Lindsey Davis

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