Wildthyme in Purple (anthology)

Wildthyme in Purple is an anthology of thirteen short stories featuring Iris Wildthyme.

Publisher's summary
pur-ple (pûrpl) n.

1. Any of a group of colours with a hue between that of violet and red.

2. Cloth of a colour between violet and red, formerly worn as a symbol of royalty or high office.

3. Imperial power; high rank: e.g born to the purple.

4. In the Roman Catholic Church, the rank or office of a cardinal or a bishop

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5. Those literary worlds visited by Iris Wildthyme where the prose is as sensual, convoluted and self-aggrandising as Iris herself...