Mask of Night
1st Carroll & Graf Edition
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Elizabeth I approaches the end of her illustrious reign, the plague is raging in London, and the Privy Council has ordered the theaters closed. Still, author Philip Gooden's fifth novel in the popular Shakespearean series brings us a great mystery as actor-sleuth Nick Revill and the Chamberlain's Men travel to Oxford, where a local physician, Dr. Hugh Fern, has commissioned a private performance of Romeo and Juliet. While Fern's motive is obscurean attempt to reconcile two feuding families to the prospect of a marriage, perhaps; or maybe simply a ploy to get himself a role in the productionhis fate is not. Indeed, he is decidedly dead, when his body is discovered during a performance at the Golden Cross Inn. No matter that the deceased lies inside a locked room or that the pestilence has followed the Chamberlain troupe from London, Revill is convinced Fern has not succumbed to natural causes. Nor is Fern's death the only one that rouses Revill's suspicions. The mysteries multiply as a strange band of men in cowls patrols the town at night, a simple carter meets a baffling end, and a corpse changes its shoes.
Book information
ISBN: | 9780786713127 |
Publisher: | Carroll & Graf |
Imprint: | Carroll & Graf |
Pub date: | 17 Feb 2004 |
Edition: | 1st Carroll & Graf Edition |
DEWEY: | 823.92 |
DEWEY edition: | 22 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 272 |
Weight: | 462g |
Height: | 222mm |
Width: | 139mm |
Spine width: | 25mm |