Book description
The mysterious Simon Chaloner appears at the Queen's Head Pub following
a performance by Lord Westfield's Men, a leading Elizabethan company of
players. Then Chaloner follows producer Nicholas Bracewell and
playwright Edmund Hoode home and gives them each a manuscript called The
Roaring Boy, a drama based on events surrounding the murder of a
mathematician. When Bracewell and Hoode stage the play, the performance
causes a riot, sending Hoode to prison. In order to save his men,
Bracewell must solve two murders-one being that on which the play is
based. Brimful of period and theatrical detail, this seventh-in-series
novel won a 1996 Edgar Allan Poe Award nomination. "The author's
mastery of plot, atmosphere, and character is at its peak here: a
powerhouse from start to finish." 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.
