It's 1912 and the famed Ballet Russes have come to London to perform. Anticipation is high, for Diaghilev’s troupe is renowned throughout Europe. At the end of their famed performance of Thamar at the Royal Opera House, the Georgian queen stabs her prince to death and throws him into the river. But life mirrors art when the prince is found truly dead, stabbed through the heart in the orchestra pit below stage. Yet, the corpse is not the dancer in the program. It is his understudy. Powerscourt is summoned to investigate. But who was the intended victim—the understudy, or the star of the Ballets Russes? And the Ballet Russes are not the only Russian visitors in London this season. Lenin, Europe’s most dangerous revolutionary, has sent some bank robbery money to be changed into pounds. There are stolen jewels from St. Petersburg to be sold. And there are other, darker forces abroad, too, and Powerscourt has to look death in the face before he can solve the mystery of Death at the Ballet Russes.

Product Description: This book explores how HIV/AIDS is understood in South African townships, where infection continues apace despite extensive educational efforts and where AIDS deaths continue despite the availability of antiretroviral treatment. The book focuses on nonscientific or alternative understandings of AIDS—the folk and lay theories that circulate within African communities...read more

Product Description: Reading the likes of Updike, Dickens, and Faulkner with a preacher's eye, David Dickinson offers an instructive examination of the role of the sermon as a literary element and, most strikingly, of literature as a modern sermon. Popular perceptions of religion, religious authority, and the practice of preaching have changed significantly during the past century, so much so, Dickinson argues, that fiction writers have a surprising and unique ability to preach to readers through their own fictionalized sermons and the characters who deliver them...read more

Product Description: The first man murdered was Abel Meredith, a resident at the Jesus Hospital Almshouse near London. The second victim, Roderick Gill, was burser at the Allison's school in Norfolk. Victim number three, Sir Rufus Walcott, was slain in his own hall by the Thames...read more

Product Description: The scion of the Colvilles, who are wealthy wine merchants, is about to marry the daughter of the even grander Nash family. Immediately after the nuptials, the bridegroom’s uncle Cosmo is found clutching a gun, having apparently killed his own brother...read more

Product Description: Changing the Course of AIDS is an in-depth evaluation of a new and exciting way to create the kind of much-needed behavioral change that could affect the course of the global health crisis of HIV/AIDS. This case study from the South African HIV/AIDS epidemic demonstrates that regular workers serving as peer educators can be as―or even more―effective agents of behavioral change than experts who lecture about the facts and so-called appropriate health care behavior...read more

Product Description: In 1905, a pilgrim is killed in Le-Puy-en-Velay, France, and Lord Francis Powerscourt is summoned to investigate. More deaths plague pilgrims traveling to Santiago de Compostela, Spain, before Powerscourt solves the murders.

Product Description: “A kind of locked bedroom mystery. . . . Dickinson's view of the royals is edgy and of course shaped by our times.”—The Poisoned Pen “Fine prose, high society and complex plot recommend this series.”—Library Journal A sinister secret at the heart of Compton Cathedral leads to murder...read more

Product Description: Someone is killing eminent lawyers; Lord Francis Powerscourt is summoned to investigate discreetly. Queen's Inn is London's youngest and most fashionable Inn of Court. During a feast on February 29, 1902, senior barrister Alexander Dauntsey collapses into his soup and dies...read more

Product Description: “Dickinson textures his canvas with historical detail as thick as the oil paint on one of his favorite paintings by Turner.”—Kirkus Reviews “Lovers of British historical mysteries will enjoy Powerscourt’s latest adventures...read more

Product Description: The recent theft of family portraits seems to be nothing more than a prank after the artwork is returned, painted over with the faces of locals. But then a body is discovered, and Lord Francis Powerscourt risks everything to find the killer.

Conducting a discreet investigation after two barristers die under suspicious circumstances, Lord Francis Powerscourt uncovers possible leads in a marriage that had been compromised by a lack of children and a boarded up grand country house.

Product Description: “Excellent. . . . Dickinson's knowledge of the arts, history and literature is nothing if not exhaustive, and adds enormously.”—Publishers Weekly “Fine prose, high society and a complex plot recommend this series.”—Library Journal Original or fake, masterpiece or forgery: misadventure or murder? England 1899, and the Salisbury Galleries in London announce the biggest exhibition of “Old Master” paintings ever seen in Europe...read more

Product Description: Lord Francis Powerscourt must save the life of Queen-Empress Victoria. England, 1897. London is preparing for Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, the celebration to mark her sixtieth year as Queen and Empress of a quarter of the surface of the globe...read more

When the dissolute Prince of Wales is threatened with yet another scandal, Lord Francis Powerscourt first tries to discover who is blackmailing--and then who murdered--the prince's equally dissolute son, Prince Eddy.

The death of the Chancellor a few weeks before the one thousanth anniversary of Christian worship at a famous cathedral prompts an investigation by Lord Francis Powerscourt that reveals the man to be one of the richest people in England and introduces motive for his sisters to kill him, in a mystery set against the backdrop of turn-of-the-century England.

Product Description: David Dickinson is a household name, the king of the catchphrase, undisputed darling of daytime TV, and a rising star. In his autobiography, David tells how he grew up in a working class district of Manchester, and reveals how he discovered at age 12 that he was adopted...read more

A novel of mystery and deceit set in the Victorian art scene takes readers into the underworld where forgeries are made, careers hinge on the success and failure of exhibitions, and art critics sometimes turn up murdered.

Product Description: David Dickinson is a household name, the king of the catchphrase, undisputed darling of daytime TV and a rising star. He's a respected antiques expert and exudes a taste for the finer things in life. But the road to his success has not been as smooth as his patter and he's learnt a lot at the school of hard knocks...read more

The discovery of a body in the Thames on the eve of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee finds private investigator Lord Francis Powerscourt haunting the streets of London in search of a killer.