Friday Memes: Death at Bishop's Keep by Robin Paige

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This week I am spotlighting Death at Bishop's Keep by Robin Paige. This was recommended to me as a historical mystery in the vein of the Ameilia Peabody mysteries by Elizabeth Peters. Had it been sitting on my shelf, it could be considered a dusty book. It was originally published in 1998. Here is the description:

Kate Adrleigh is everything the Victorian English gentlewoman is not--outspoken, free-thinking, American...and a writer of the frowned upon "penny-dreadfuls." Soon after her arrival in Essex, England, a body is unearthed in a nearby archeological dig--and Kate has the chance to not only research her latest story...but to begin her first case with amateur detective Sir Charles Sheridan. 

Beginning:

Kate Ardleigh glanced warily over her shoulder.

Friday 56: 

Kate was pleased when she found herself seated next to Sir Charles at dinner, for she meant to ask him a question.