Mary Malloy
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First Edition.
Description
"It is the 100th anniversary of St. Patrick's College and Professor Lizzie Manning is tasked with creating a centennial exhibition to celebrate the occasion. Her research takes her to Bologna, where the daughter of the college's founder married an Italian prince with a family collection dating back to the Renaissance. Among the oddities and works of art Lizzie finds ancient alligators, old master paintings, unicorn tusks, and rarities from around...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Description
"Historian Lizzie Manning takes a walk across England, tracing the path of Chaucer's Wife of Bath. She learns that Chaucer may have based his character on a real woman, 'the Weaver,' who left her monogram on artworks commissioned across England, and whose descendant holds invaluable artifacts. But can this scholarly investigation lead to something more sinister? Are the bones of St. Thomas Becket, believed destroyed by Henry VIII more than 350 years...