Book description
When fire destroys their London theater, Lord Westfield's players must
seek out humbler venues in the countryside. But company manager Nicholas
Bracewell is distracted by a shocking tragedy: a mysterious messenger
from his native Devon is murdered by poison. Though the messenger is
silenced, Nicholas understands what he must do-return to his birthplace
and reconcile some unfinished business of the past. The rest of
Westfield's Men, penniless and dejected, ride forth with him on a
nightmare tour that will perhaps become their valedictory, dogged by
plague, poverty, rogues, and thieves. And among the sinister shadows
that glide silently with them toward Devon is one who means Nicholas
never to arrive… "Mr. Marston's revenge plot has all the
swashbuckling thrills and romantic swagger of the blood-and-thunder
tragedies that are meat and drink to Westfield's Men." EDWARD
MARSTON was born and brought up in South Wales. A full-time writer for
over thirty years, he has worked in radio, film, television and the
theatre. Prolific and highly successful, he is equally at home writing
children books or literary criticism, plays or biographies and the
settings for his crime novels range from the world of professional golf
to the compilation of the Domesday Survey. He is also a former Chairman
of the Crime Writers Association.
