The Art of Dying Margaret Forster Pagan revelry and morris dancing

Pagan revelry and morris dancing in the middle of a very cold winter set the scene for one of Ngaio Marshs most fascinating murder mysteries

on the Chinese future he is often disquietingly apprehensive

and spin light from darkness

with a heroine I won't forget

rain-soaked Dublin of early spring

The Art of Dying Margaret Forster Pagan revelry and morris dancingEdinburgh, 1850. Despite being at the forefront of modern medicine, hordes of patients are dying all across the city, with doctors finding their remedies powerless. But it is not just the deaths that dismay the esteemed Dr James Simpson a whispering campaign seeks to blame him for the death of a patient in suspicious circumstances. Simpson's protg Will Raven and former housemaid Sarah Fisher are determined to clear their patron's name. But with Raven