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4-6Lady Grace Mysteries series.
When a famous portraitist comes to Nonsuch Palace to paint Queen Elizabeth, paint containing arsenic goes missing and a maid of honor falls ill. Lady Grace's sleuthing leads her to the perpetrator of the poisoning as well as to the crime's motive. This light, engaging mystery is full of period detail. Endnotes illuminate "the fact behind the fiction." Glos.