title: Murder Most Medieval: Noble Tales of Ignoble Demises
author: Martin H. Greenberg
description: Here are thirteen deadly tales, all set within the dramatic turmoil of medieval Europe. Murder mystery fans and history buffs alike will be riveted by the selections offered by master anthologist Martin H. Greenberg and Nebula Award-winner John Helfers. You'll meet Peter Tremayne's seventh-century Celtic detective, Sister Fidelma, in "Like a Dog Returning;" discover Clayton Emery's take on Robin Hood in "Plucking a Mandrake;" learn about Brother Cadfael, soldier-turned-sleuthing-monk, from the wicked pen of Ellis Peters; and many others?all in the service of investigating crime in the Middle Ages, from the misdeeds of commoners to the felonies of kings.
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  **Strangers in Death**
  
   **Eve Dallas – Book 31**
  
   **By J. D. Robb**
  
   _Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all._
  —OLIVERWENDELLHOLMES
  
   _One cannot be in two places at once._ —SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY PROVERB
  
   **1**
  
  MURDER HARBORED NO BIGOTRY, NO BIAS. IT subscribed to no class system. In its
  gleeful, deadly, and terminally judicious way, murder turned a blind eye on
  race, creed, gender, and social stratum. As Lieutenant Eve Dallas stood in the
  sumptuous bedroom of the recently departed Thomas A. Anders, she considered
  that.
  
  Only the night before she’d caught—and closed—a case dealing with the homicide
  of a twenty-year-old woman who’d been throttled, beaten, then chucked out the
  window of her nine-story flop.
  
  The rent-by-the-week flop, Eve mused, where the victim’s boyfriend claimed to
  have slept through her _demise,_ smelled of stale sex, stale zoner, and really
  bad Chinese food. Anders? His Park Avenue bedroom smelled of candy-col