The Pale Companion

✍ Scribed by Gooden, Philip

• Book ID: 108629000
• Publisher: Constable & Robinson
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 195 KB
• Series: Shakespearean Murder Mystery 3
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781472104304

✦ Synopsis

Third in the entertaining adventures of Shakespearean actor and sleuth, Nick Revill It is midsummer in the year 1601. Nick Revill and his fellow actors of the company known as the Chamberlain's Men are journeying across the Wiltshire Downs for a country-house presentation of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. It should be a pleasant well-paid jaunt to celebrate a noble marriage, but instead the players find themselves in the midst of a tense family atmosphere, somehow linked to the presence of the household's sinister steward. Very soon Nick finds that the Dream has turned into a nightmare, where murder appears commonplace, and before too long he must fight to save his own life against the ancient backdrop of Stonehenge...