Three dozen mystery writers--among them Elizabeth Peters, Edward D. Hoch, Tom Holt, Margaret Frazer, Susanna Gregory, Derek Wilson, Marilyn Todd, and Michael Jecks--contrive deadly conundrums in the original stories commissioned especially for the volume. Its chilling, suspenseful pages include lethal doings in old Byzantium, the case of a serial killer loose in Elizabethan London, and terror in Celtic Wales, while inexplicable killings in medieval Sherwood Forest make sleuths of Robin Hood and Maid Marion and a perplexing murder in ancient Rome turns the orator Quintilian into Perry Mason.

Readers of the immensely popular first Mammoth Book of Historical Whodunnits will welcome back Steven Saylor's Gordianus the Finder and his occasional employer, the lawyer Cicero (in a story never collected before in book form), Peter Tremayne's Sister Fidelma in medieval Ireland, and Mary Reed and Eric Mayer's John the Eunuch, the Emperor Justinian's Lord Chamberlain. Edward Hoch, Keith Taylor, and Cherith Baldry also turn such familiar historical figures as Christopher Columbus, John de Mandeville, and Geoffrey Chaucer into detectives in this new Mammoth collection of historical mysteries.

Contents:

• Poppy and the Poisoned Cake by Steven Saylor
• Blind Justice by Michael Kurland
• A Payment to the Gods by Rosemary Rowe
• The Last Legion by Richard Butler
• And All That He Calls Family by Mary Reed and Eric Mayer
• Death of an Icon by Peter Tremayne
• King Hereafter by Philip Gooden
• The Death Toll by Susanna Gregory
• The Isle of Saints by Kate Ellis
• A Perfect Crime by Derek Wilson
• On Wings of Love by Carol Anne Davis
• A Lion Rampant by Jean Davidson
• The Amorous Armourer by Michael Jecks
• Benefit of Clergy by Keith Taylor
• The Pilgrim’s Tale by Cherith Baldry
• And What Can They Show, or What Reasons Give? by Mat Coward
• Heretical Murder by Margaret Frazer
• A Moon for Columbus by Edward D. Hoch
• House of the Moon by Claire Griffin
• Flibbertigibbet by Paul Finch
• The Vasty Deep by Peter T. Garratt
• A Taste for Burning by Marilyn Todd