Poison in Jest: Being the Second Volume of the Memoirs of Madame Seraphina Fox, Spiritualist, Describing Her Worldly and Otherworldly Experiences - Paperback

by Joy Reed (Author)

Madame Seraphina Fox, Victorian London's most popular (and fraudulent) medium has her hands full with a new adventure. When a wealthy client hires her to summon up the spirit of the Duke of Wellington, she soon realizes there's danger afoot-and not from Napoleon. The dinner planned to celebrate the Duke's victory serves up generous helpings of greed, treachery, and sudden death. Madame Fox really needs a strategic genius to sort out this mess. Especially when a ghost from her own past appears to threaten her livelihood. . ..

Author Biography

Joy Reed is the author of 16 romance novels, an award-winning master's thesis, and the Seraphina Fox mystery series. Her works have been published around the world and translated into four languages. She has dabbled in teaching and is a dilettante scientist, but chiefly devotes herself to her twin loves of history and literature. Ms. Reed lives in the Greater Little Rock area with her long-suffering husband and an undisclosed number of cats and tarantulas. You can read her musings about life and literature on her blog BookJoy: http: //bookjoy.livejournal.com/