The Robsart Mystery (U) (Mystery at Queen Elizabeth I's Court)

'A well written Elizabethan whodunnit.' - READING PANEL In September 1560, Robert Dudley's wife, Amy Robsart, was found dead at the bottom of the staircase in her house, Cumnor Place, Oxfordshire. Many suspected foul play. Queen Elizabeth, in love with Dudley, had a motive. Dudley, ambitious to marry Elizabeth, certainly had reason to wish his wife dead. Before her death, Amy herself had believed she was being poisoned, so Ursula Blanchard had been ordered to Cumnor Place to protect the Queen's reputation by protecting Amy. When Ursula's task ends in failure, and someone dear to her has also been brutally murdered, she begins a personal quest to learn the truth behind Amy's death...