by Kathy Lynn Emerson (Author)

Lady Appleton's World: The Complete Short Stories is a collection of sixteen short stories first published between 1999 and 2015 and newly edited by the author. They feature the adventures of Susanna, Lady Appleton, sixteenth-century gentlewoman, herbalist, and sleuth, and other characters from Kathy Lynn Emerson's ten-book Face Down Mystery Series. This is the first time all sixteen have appeared in a single volume. Illustrated with eight pen and ink drawings by Linda Weatherly S and accompanied by author notes, the stories included are: "The Body in the Dovecote," "Much Ado about Murder," "The Rubaiyat of Nicholas Baldwin," "Lady Appleton and the London Man," "Lady Appleton and the Cautionary Herbal," "The Riddle of the Woolsack," "Lady Appleton and the Cripplegate Chrisoms," "Lady Appleton and the Bristol Crystals," "Encore for a Neck Verse," "Confusions Most Monstrous," "Death by Devil's Turnips," "Any Means Short of Murder," "A Wondrous Violent Motion," "Lady Appleton and the Creature of the Night," "The Curse of the Figure Flinger," and "Lady Appleton and the Yuletide Hogglers."