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"Spanning much of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the novel follows the fortunes of the extraordinary Whittaker family as led by the enterprising Henry Whittaker--a poor-born Englishman who makes a great fortune in the South American quinine trade, eventually becoming the richest man in Philadelphia. Born in 1800, Henry's brilliant daughter, Alma (who inherits both her father's money and his mind), ultimately becomes a botanist of considerable...
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Saffron Everleigh mystery volume 2
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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A brilliant woman botanist studying in London in the 1920s is asked to assist in a crime where victims were sent bouquets of poisonous flowers in the second novel of the series following A Botanist's Guide to Parties and Poisons.
Author
Series
Saffron Everleigh Mystery volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Attempting to blaze a new trail for women at the University College London in 1923, research assistant Saffron Everleigh becomes involved in solving the murder of a professor's wife who appeared to have been poisoned at a school dinner party.
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Series
Arcane Society novels volume 6
Language
English
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Plagued by rumors that she poisoned her fiancé, Lucinda Bromley lives on the fringes of polite Victorian London society, tending her beloved plants--and occasionally consulting on a murder investigation. For the notorious botanist can detect almost any type of poison, especially those derived from plants. But the murder of a lord has shaken Lucinda: at the scene, she picks up traces of a toxin from a very rare species. So rare, in fact, that only...
5) The weeds
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Two women botanists, connected across time, confront desire, ambition, and the seeming inevitability of violence"--
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Publisher
Plume
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"On the eve of the Second World War, the last surviving specimen of a camellia plant known as the Middlebury Pink lies secreted away on an English country estate. Flora, an amateur American botanist, is contracted by an international ring of flower thieves to infiltrate the household and acquire the coveted bloom. Her search is at once brightened by new love and threatened by her discovery of a series of ghastly crimes. More than half a century later,...
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Vergara Grupo Zeta
Pub. Date
2010
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Español
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Atormentada por los rumores de que envenenó a su prometido, Lucinda Bromley vive alejada de la sociedad del Londres victoriano. De vez en cuando, sin embargo, se embarca en la investigación de un asesinato, pues Lucinda tiene una cualidad excepcional: es capaz de detectar casi cualquier tipo de veneno. Para descubrir el asesinato de un noble, Lucinda solicitará los servicios del investigador psíquico Caleb Jones. La atracción entre ambos será...
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Series
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
In this sequel to Restoration, court physician Robert Merivel has a middle age crisis and sets off for Versailles where he meets Madame de Flamanville, a Swiss botanist, and rescues a captive bear to take back to Bidnold Manor.
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Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"The nineteenth century was a transformative period in the history of American science, as scientific study, once the domain of armchair enthusiasts and amateurs, became the purview of professional experts and institutions. In Mischievous Creatures, historian Catherine McNeur shows that women were central to the development of the natural sciences during this critical time. She does so by uncovering the forgotten lives of entomologist Margaretta Hare...
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