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Title: Louisa the Poisoner Title Record # 12182
Author: Tanith Lee
Date: 1995-00-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: novelette
Language: English
Synopsis: "From the first edition DJ Front Flap: ""There are three things that grow in March Mire," said the aunt, in a silly sing-song voice, her eyes half closed, "and that grow nowhere else together, and seldom anywhere. Find them in one spot, take them and make them up. From them comes this dew. Oh Louisa. Listen carefully. This stuff grants the gift of death." Louisa widened her eyes but she was not actually impressed. Death was everywhere in the mire and especially often in her aunt's nasty bottles. "Listen," said the aunt again, "the poison in this bottle leaves no trace as it kills. In the world beyond the mire this can mean much. I've told you, there are towns along the moors, and great houses piled up with money and jewels. If every cobweb on that ceiling was changed to bank notes it would be nothing to them... We'll seek for just such a rich place. Then I'll know how to go on. You shall pretend to be a lost lady, as I've trained you. You'll do as I say, and our fortunes will be made." "But how, Aunt?" They'll fall in love, and make over their goods through wills, which I've told you of. And then I'll see them off..." Thus begins Louisa's strange journey into the world beyond the mire, armed only with her striking beauty, her perfect manners, and her aunt's deadly poison. A thrilling historical fantasy!"
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Publications

Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
Louisa the Poisoner 1995-00-00 Tanith Lee Wildside Press 1-880448-50-5
$35.00?$: US dollar
77
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
chap George Barr  
Louisa the Poisoner 1996-07-00 Tanith Lee Wildside Press / SFBC 12068
$2.98?$: US dollar
77
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
chap George Barr Checkmark
Louisa the Poisoner 2005-03-00 Tanith Lee Wildside Press 1-59224-600-1
$12.50?$: US dollar
77
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
chap George Barr  
Louisa the Poisoner 2011-07-08 Tanith Lee Wildside Press 978-1-4344-3805-8
$2.99?$: US dollar
 
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
chap George Barr  
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