Eight plays deal with the fatal reunion of two lovers, an act of kindness that leads to a charge of murder, the daughter of a murderess investigating her mother's case, and other murder mysteries (view table of contents)

Product Description: The Pyramids and the Taj Mahal are witness to the extravagant architectural tributes that, throughout human history, the great and the wealthy have paid to their dead. In this book, an architectural historian provides a history of funerary architecture in western Europe from the earliest megalithic tombs of prehistory to the establishment of public cemeteries in the 19th century...read more