{"product_id":"mask-of-night-book-5-in-the-nick-revill-series","title":"Mask of Night: Book 5 in the Nick Revill series","description":"About the Author\n\nPHILIP GOODEN is a graduate of Magdalen College, Oxford. He writes books about language as well as historical crime novels. The former include Who's Whose? A No-Nonsense Guide to Easily-Confused Words, The Story of English, and (as co-author) Idiomantics and The Word at War. He has been nominated for a CWA Ellis Peters Historical Dagger Award.\n\nProduct Description\n\n'Another clever criminal plunge into history' Guardian\n\nElizabeth I approaches the end of her illustrious reign, the plague is raging in London, and the Privy Council has ordered the theaters closed. Still, author Philip Gooden's fifth novel in the popular Shakespearean series brings us a great mystery as actor-sleuth Nick Revill and the Chamberlain's Men travel to Oxford, where a local physician, Dr. Hugh Fern, has commissioned a private performance of Romeo and Juliet.\n\nWhile Fern's motive is obscure-an attempt to reconcile two feuding families to the prospect of a marriage, perhaps; or maybe simply a ploy to get himself a role in the production-his fate is not. Indeed, he is decidedly dead, when his body is discovered during a performance at the Golden Cross Inn. No matter that the deceased lies inside a locked room or that the pestilence has followed the Chamberlain troupe from London, Revill is convinced Fern has not succumbed to natural causes.\n\nNor is Fern's death the only one that rouses Revill's suspicions. The mysteries multiply as a strange band of men in cowls patrols the town at night, a simple carter meets a baffling end, and a corpse changes its shoes.\n\nThe fifth Shakespearean murder mystery in the Nick Revill series, set during the reign of the formidable Elizabeth I.\n\nPraise for Philip Gooden:\n\n'Highly entertaining' Sunday Times\n\n'The witty narrative, laced with puns and word play so popular in this period, makes this an enjoyable racy tale'Sunday Telegraph\n\n'The book has much in common with the film Shakespeare in Love - full of colourful characters . . . but the book has an underlying darkness' Crime Time\n\n'Historical mystery fans are in for a treat' Publishers Weekly\n\nBook Description\n\nHistory meets mystery with a new twist in this raucous, colourful novel set in the bustling theatrical world of Shakespeare and Marlowe during the reign of the formidable Elizabeth I.\n\nFrom the Back Cover\n\n'Highly entertaining' Sunday Times\n\nHistory meets mystery with a new twist in this raucous, colourful novel set in the bustling theatrical world of Shakespeare and Marlowe during the reign of the formidable Elizabeth I.\n\nElizabeth I approaches the end of her illustrious reign, the plague is raging in London, and the Privy Council has ordered the theaters closed. Actor-sleuth Nick Revill and the Chamberlain's Men travel to Oxford, where a local physician, Dr. Hugh Fern, has commissioned a private performance of Romeo and Juliet.\n\nWhile Fern's motive is obscure - an attempt to reconcile two feuding families to the prospect of a marriage, perhaps; or maybe simply a ploy to get himself a role in the production- his fate is not. Indeed, he is decidedly dead, when his body is discovered during a performance at the Golden Cross Inn. Though the deceased lies inside a locked room, and the pestilence has followed the Chamberlain troupe from London, Revill is convinced Fern has not succumbed to natural causes.\n\nNor is Fern's death the only one that rouses Revill's suspicions. The mysteries multiply as a strange band of men in cowls patrols the town at night, a simple carter meets a baffling end, and a corpse changes its shoes.","brand":"Constable","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40236096487509,"sku":"9781472133618N","price":11.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2481\/5790\/products\/c155a3d8-8720-4a50-96d2-a89184d90e04.jpg?v=1660304434","url":"https:\/\/smeikalbooks.co.uk\/en-us\/products\/mask-of-night-book-5-in-the-nick-revill-series","provider":"smeikalbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}