Death of a Musketeer (A Musketeer's Mystery) - Softcover

D'Almeida, Sarah

3.56

137 ratings by Goodreads

9780425212929: Death of a Musketeer (A Musketeer's Mystery)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0425212920 ISBN 13: 9780425212929

Publisher: Berkley, 2006

View all copies of this ISBN edition:

When they stumble upon the dead body of the Queen of France's double, who was masquerading as a musketeer, the Four Musketeers, keeping the crime quiet as to not cause a scandal, investigate on their own and unravel a shocking conspiracy that is linked to one of their pasts. Original.

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

About the Author:

Sarah D’Almeida is the pen name of Sarah A. Hoyt. Sarah A. Hoyt has published over twenty novels in science fiction, fantasy, mystery, historical mystery and historical fiction. She also uses the pen names Sarah Marques and Elise Hyatt. Her science fiction novel, Darkship Thieves, won the Prometheus Award. Sarah Hoyt was born and raised in Portugal where most of her family still resides. She lives in Colorado with her husband, two sons and a varying clowder of cats.

From Publishers Weekly:

Dumas fans eager for further details of the lives of his swashbuckling musketeer heroes may enjoy this first in a series of historical mystery novels that transforms those men of action and intrigue into the king's detectives. The concept is less far-fetched than it might seem; in one of Dumas's own sequels to The Three Musketeers, The Viscount of Bragelonne, D'Artagnan displays almost Holmesian powers of deduction. But D'Almeida has not yet realized the potential of her conceit. By choosing to wedge her plot into the midst of the well-known original—chronicling D'Artagnan's first adventure with Athos, Porthos and Aramis—she has constricted herself, making the central elements of her plot disappointingly familiar. The whodunit posed for her four heroes—a young woman who closely resembles the queen has been murdered by an unknown assailant—is not especially tricky due to a paucity of plausible suspects, and the colloquial language can jar. Nonetheless, the idea is interesting enough that both musketeer and mystery fans can hope for improvements in future entries. (Nov.)
Copyright � Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.