Poirot sets himself a challenge before he retires – to solve 12 cases which correspond with the labours of his classical Greek
...The Labyrinth is filled with beautiful portraits of mighty creatures from the world of myths & legends, just waiting to be brought
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From the author of the Orange New Writers shortlisted ' The Book of Fires', an extraordinary tale of love & science. When Henry Lyte brings his young bride Frances home to his Somerset estate, he hopes she will share in his devotion to the garden
- a refuge of fruit trees & flower beds, with a knot of herbs at its heart. Henry is a scholar, & his life's work is his 'herbal'
- a book of plants & their medicinal properties, intended for those who cannot afford physicians' expensive cures. But life on the edges of the flood plains makes Frances uneasy, & there are strange rumours abroad concerning the death of Henry's first wife
- rumours that can be traced to Henry's step-mother Joan Young, a grasping woman eager to seize control of the family's lands. & while Henry cannot tear himself from his studies, he stands the risk of losing everything he loves...