The name of Victoria Holt became popular literally in a matter of days, when books by this well-known English writer in many countries appeared one after another, who also published novels under the pseudonyms of Philippa Carr and Jane Plaidy. "Madame Snake." “The Poisoner” and “The Whore Queen” (trilogy) are not so much historical novels as love ones. Although they are remembered by the accuracy of details, characters, descriptions of everyday life and family relationships. And, of course, the image of the main character Catherine, Catherine de Medici, an Italian who became a French queen, passionately thirsting for the love of King Henry, power and... the death of her rival Diane de Poitiers. The historical trilogy novel (“Madame Snake,” “The Poisoner,” “The Whore Queen”) is one of the most interesting among those written by the remarkable English writer Victorine Holt, and its genre can be defined as love adventure. The irrepressible thirst for power, the desire to rule the country by directing the actions of her children, the treachery of the Queen Mother, Catherine de Medici, became the cause of many mysterious and terrible crimes in France in the second half of the 16th century.