The Queene's Christmas - first US edition

by Karen Harper - signed

Fearing the Twelve Days of Christmas of 1564 may be the last for her ailing, elderly friend, Lady Kat Ashley, Queen Elizabeth decrees a nostalgic, old-fashioned holiday. Delicious dishes for the table, holly and ivy, caroling, wassailing, mumming, and a Lord of Misrule to oversee it all are in the recipe for the revels. But one of the queen's kitchen staff is found as dead as the ornate peacock he was preparing for the feast. Elizabethan England comes alive in all its pomp and pageantry, deadly intrigue and scandal-and fine feasting-in this acclaimed mystery series featuring the young queen, Elizabeth Tudor, as amateur sleuth.

Book has black boards with the title in red on the spine; 320 pages with dimensions (in inches) of 1.08 x 8.46 x 5.88. Unread. Jacket is in fine, unclipped condition, price intact at $24.95, mylar protected.