Black Heart ~ Sailing with Mystery 3: Into Death

By M.A. Lee

Pranks and tricks cause inconvenience, misery, and embarrassment.

 

After one prank goes too far and injury occurs, will Isabella locate the trickster before the next mishap turns deadly?

 

"Black Heart" is the third short story in the collection Sailing with Mystery. The collection continues the mystery adventures of the artist Isabella Newcombe Tarrant, featured in the Into Death series. Her introduction is in the novel Digging into Death.

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Writer M.A. Lee has published over 15 historical mystery novels and two novellas. With Edie Roones, she penned 10 short stories in the Wild Sherwood series, featuring characters of the Robin Hood legends as well as new characters, all encountering the dangerous faeries of British mythology.

• Language: English
• Publisher: M.A. Lee
• Release date: Jun 20, 2023
• ISBN: 9798986770178

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Black Heart

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Black Heart

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C ome to Cairo. See the pyramids, her friend had Nedda urged. I will run mad if I have no one reasonable to talk with.

Isabella agreed with excitement. Nine days in a hotel in Port Said with nothing to do didn’t appeal.

She never expected to stand on the desert road for an hour, waiting for the following truck to arrive and rescue them.

Everything around was dry desert, peaked dunes to one side of the half-burned road and ridges of mixed sienna and umber rising as a buttress against the drifting sand. Deep shadows in the ridges looked like the eyepits of a skull. The shadow-black rocks crumbled from heat and time. To her, the whole landscape looked alien, stark and intriguing.

The Egyptian desert looked nothing like Crete, where she had met her husband Madoc. The darker sandy rocks reminded her of the American southwest, where Aunt Letitia and Uncle Roger had lived, all red rock canyons or endless stretches of barren plains. Yet the desert southwest had scrubby pines, knotted junipers, and creosote bushes. Wildlife abounded: pinyon jays and wrens and thrashers, jackrabbits and coyote and deer.

Here, she only saw a distant falcon soaring on the updrafts. Nothing appeared to move in the landscape. Isabella had wanted to sketch a long-eared fennec or the precious-looking gerbil or a sleek gazelle. She’d only heard