Whereas there is information in plenty aboutBishop Beaufort, researching what killed Sir Clement was anothermatter. The book was plotted and I had begun writing it when Ifound out that our modern word for what killed him did not existuntil the early 1900s. Although I was certain the phenomenon musthave existed far earlier, the prospect of trying to detect a crimewithout knowing what to call the manner of murder was temporarilydaunting. The Encyclopedia of Medical History by RoderickE. McGrew saved me, providing both a record of the trouble throughthe centuries and the period terminology for it.
Margaret Frazer
Margaret Frazer is the award-winning authorof more than twenty historical murder mysteries and novels. Shemakes her home in Minneapolis, Minnesota, surrounded by her books,but she lives her life in the 1400s. In writing her Edgar-nominatedSister Frevisse (The Novice's Tale) and Player Joliffe(A Play of Isaac) novels she delves far inside medievalperceptions, seeking to look at medieval England more from itspoint of view than ours. "Because the pleasure of going thoroughlyinto otherwhen as well as otherwhere is one of the great pleasuresin reading."
She can be visited online athttp://www.margaretfrazer.com.
Mary Monica Pulver
aka Monica Ferris, Mary Pulver Kuhfeld, Margaret of Shaftesbury
Mary Monica Pulver (her maiden name) is an incidental Hoosier – Terre Haute, Indiana, had the hospital closest to her parents' home in Marshall, Illinois. She spent the later part of her childhood and early adult life in Wisconsin, graduating from high school in Milwaukee. She was a journalist in the U.S. Navy for six and a half years (two in London), and later attended the University of Wisconsin at Madison. She is married to a museum curator
