The first book in the Joan and Matthew Stock mystery series set in Elizabethan England. **They were a small players troupe, come to perform for a lord and his lady** And none of the rag-tag group shone more than the young players boy, with his flaxen hair and fine features. Indeed, he had
The Player's Boy is Dead
β Scribed by Tourney, Leonard
- Book ID
- 108632298
- Publisher
- Ballantine Books
- Year
- 1988
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 113 KB
- Series
- Joan and Matthew Stock Mystery 1
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
The first book in the Joan and Matthew Stock mystery series set in Elizabethan England.
They were a small playerβs troupe, come to perform for a lord and his ladyβ¦
And none of the rag-tag group shone more than the young playersβ boy, with his flaxen hair and fine features. Indeed, he had won a scullery maidβs heart, and it was she, at cockβs crow, who went searching for him in the stables where he slept. But, alas, she found him deadβmurdered in a most gruesome way. And now Constable Matthew Stock must search high and low, from a Lordβs castle to a disreputable inn, to find the person who dealt such an ungodly blowβ¦
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