The Mad Courtesan

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Missing Mystery
tríje Courtesan
Quelle surprise, an actor with a weakness for women and a reluctance to pay his debts.
In this riotous fifth novel the tragedies being performed onstage pale in comparison to all the blood and thunder offstage.
—The Washington Post Book World
Though the lusty star of Lord Westfield's Men, Laurence Firethorn, is always ripe for seducing women bewitched by his art, the vicious rivalry that erupts is between two other actors. Owen Ellas is a surly, envious Welshman, while Sebastian Carrick is an amiable and attractive gentleman. Their onstage duels become ever more realistic. But then an axe splits open Sebastian's head one night in a Clerkenwell alley. The Company bookholder, Nicholas Bracewell, used to damage control, begins to investigate the victim's death and learns that he was prone to draw enemies from his weakness for women and his willingness to welch on debts. A web of deception has in fact been spun that stretches from lowly to high... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Missing Mystery
tríje Courtesan
Quelle surprise, an actor with a weakness for women and a reluctance to pay his debts.
In this riotous fifth novel the tragedies being performed onstage pale in comparison to all the blood and thunder offstage.
—The Washington Post Book World
Though the lusty star of Lord Westfield's Men, Laurence Firethorn, is always ripe for seducing women bewitched by his art, the vicious rivalry that erupts is between two other actors. Owen Ellas is a surly, envious Welshman, while Sebastian Carrick is an amiable and attractive gentleman. Their onstage duels become ever more realistic. But then an axe splits open Sebastian's head one night in a Clerkenwell alley. The Company bookholder, Nicholas Bracewell, used to damage control, begins to investigate the victim's death and learns that he was prone to draw enemies from his weakness for women and his willingness to welch on debts. A web of deception has in fact been spun that stretches from lowly to high ranking courtesans—all the way to the Virgin Queen. And what of the horse Nimbus, promised to perform Pegasus-like at the very top of St. Paul's Church?
Edward Marston, under his real name, Keith Miles, was raised in Wales and went on to study modern history at Oxford. He has been a university lecturer, radio, television, and theatre dramatist, and in addition to writing has worked as an actor and director. His Elizabethan novel. The Roaring Boy, was a 1996 Edgar Allan Poe Award nominee for best novel. He lives in Kent. Vissza