The Queen's head

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Missing Mystery
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1587, Mary, Queen of Scots, dies by the executioner's axe, her head, shorn of its auburn wig, rolling across the platform. Will her death end the ceaseless plotting against Mary's red-haired cousin, Elizabeth?
1588, the year of the Spanish Armada, is a time of more terror and triumph, not just for queen and court but for the whole of England. The turmoil is reflected in its theatres and under the galleries of inns like London's The Queen's Head where Lord Westfield's Men perform. The scene there grows even more tumultuous when one of the actors is murdered by a mysterious stranger during a brawl.
Nicholas Bracewell, the company's bookholder, a role far wider than mere theatrical producer, faces two immediate repercussions. The first is to secure a replacement acceptable to its temperamental star—and chief shareholder— Lawrence Firethorn. The second is to keep his promise to the dying actor Will Fowler and catch his killer.
Soon fiirther... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Missing Mystery
Queen 5 ioea5
1587, Mary, Queen of Scots, dies by the executioner's axe, her head, shorn of its auburn wig, rolling across the platform. Will her death end the ceaseless plotting against Mary's red-haired cousin, Elizabeth?
1588, the year of the Spanish Armada, is a time of more terror and triumph, not just for queen and court but for the whole of England. The turmoil is reflected in its theatres and under the galleries of inns like London's The Queen's Head where Lord Westfield's Men perform. The scene there grows even more tumultuous when one of the actors is murdered by a mysterious stranger during a brawl.
Nicholas Bracewell, the company's bookholder, a role far wider than mere theatrical producer, faces two immediate repercussions. The first is to secure a replacement acceptable to its temperamental star—and chief shareholder— Lawrence Firethorn. The second is to keep his promise to the dying actor Will Fowler and catch his killer.
Soon fiirther robberies, accidents, and misfortimes strike Lord Westfield's Men even as their stage successes swell. Bracewell begins to suspect a conspiracy, not a single murderous act, but where lies the proof? Then the players are rewarded with the ultimate accolade—^an appearance at court— and the canny bookholder senses the end to the drama is at hand
"Matstons wit and vivid evocation of Elizbethan London's sights and smells provide a delightfiilly ribald backdrop for this clever series."
—Publishers Weekly
Edward Marston, under his real name, 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, director, and dramatist. His Elizabethan novel, The Roaring Boy, was a 1996 Edgar Allan Poe Award nominee for best novel. He lives in Kent Vissza