title: Death at Windsor Castle: Her Majesty Investigates
author:  C.C. Benison 
description: Industrious housemaid Jane Bee is at it again in this third novel in a series featuring Her Majesty the Queen as a very polite inquisitor in deaths that are not what they seem in the various royal houses. C.C. Benison has set up the novels so that Jane Bee, a Canadian college student working for the royal family as a lark, ostensibly serves as Watson to the Queen's Sherlock. However, Jane is much quicker off the mark than Watson ever was, and the Queen, old dear that she is, is not quite as prescient as Holmes; yet, the Font of All Justice is just as believably steely-eyed in the pursuit of truth.
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  As midwife and healer, Agatha Kyteler is regarded as a witch by her
  superstitious neighbours in the village of Wefford in Devonshire, yet she has
  no shortage of callers, from the humblest villein to the most elegant and
  wealthy in the area. But when Agatha's body is found frozen and mutilated in a
  hedge one wintry morning, there seem to be no clues as to who could be
  responsible. Not until a local youth runs away and a hue and cry is raised.
  
  
  Sir Baldwin Furnshill, Keeper of the King's Peace, is not convinced of the
  youth's guilt, and soon he manages to persuade his close friend Simon Puttock,
  bailiff of Lydford Castle, to help him continue with the investigation. As
  they endeavour to find the true culprit, the darker side of the village, with
  its undercurrents of suspicion, jealousy and disloyalty, emerges. And while
  Sir Baldwin becomes increasingly distracted by the beauty of a neighbouring
  merchant's wife, Simon finds himself wondering what happened to the foreigne