Book description
In the last decade of Elizabeth I's reign, Nick Revill, an aspiring
young actor, comes to London seeking fame and fortune. Once there he
gains employment with the Chamberlain's Men. Thrown out of his digs
over an unfortunate accident, Nick is offered lodgings at a wealthy
Thameside mansion by a black-clad youth whose father has just died and
whose mother has remarried his uncle. Pondering on the similarities
between the young man's story and William Shakespeare's newest
tragedy, Hamlet, Nick is charged with the task of finding out
whether foul play was involved in the death of the old man and hasty
remarriage of his young, lusty wife. As Nick works his way ever closer
to the truth, the finger of suspicion begins to point to his enigmatic
employer Mr William Shakespeare - actor, author and shareholder in the
Chamberlain's Men...
