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Book, 2000
Current format, Book, 2000, 1st ed, Available .
Book, 2000
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Fledgling playwright William Shakespeare teams up with aspiring actor Symington Smythe to solve an Elizabethan mystery that could end in murder. Fledgling playwright William Shakespeare teams up with aspiring actor Symington Smythe to solve an Elizabethan mystery that could end in murder. 10,000 first printing. Symington Smythe, an ostler and aspiring thespian. Will Shakespeare, a fledgling dramatist. Two travelers meet at a roadside inn and decide to cast their lots together for fame and fortune in the cutthroat world of the London theater in Elizabethan England ... but neither was prepared for their offstage encounter with a mystery of errors. When a backer's daughter is double-crossed by a would-be suitor, the reluctant bride turns to the ostler and the playwright for help. Little does anyone realize that these simple affairs of the heart and an arranged marriage will lead to a vast web of conspiracy, mistaken identity, and murder that finds the playwright targeted for assassination and the ostler hopelessly in love.
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