Bullets for Macbeth Author:Marvin Kaye Marvin Kaye's third Hilary Quayle novel discovers not only the identity of a present day murderer but also the identity of Banquo's third murderer, a mystery which has been tantalizing and baffling scholars for 350 years. While written in the tradition of Josephine Tey's "Daughter of Time", this mystery is different in that it develops as an ori... more »ginal theory rather than popularizing a little-known existing one.
Hilary Quayle and her assistant, Gene, are asked to take on the publicity for an extravagant production of "Macbeth" to premiere at Madison Square Garden's Felt Forum. Hilary had known the director many years ago in summer stock. All proceeds as usual in the theatrical world?a world fraught with the hectic, the impassioned, the absolute certainty that nothing will be ready by opening night and the resolute drive to belie that certainty.
And on the night of the technical/dress rehearsal all efforts seem to be paying off with a rather splendid production?until one of the corpses turns out not to be acting, and the gunshot during the blackout turns out to be no flamboyant anachronism.
Hilary suspects "the play's the thing" and studies the text and old sourcebooks, her trail finally taking her to the Folger Library in Washington, D.C. Gene, meanwhile, pursues the problem in more traditional fashion, his investigations leading him through New York's glamorous and less than glamorous theatrical circles.
The conclusions and solutions they find will surprise everyone. "Bullets for Macbeth" is an exciting puzzle operating on several levels for the reader who enjoys good and intriguing mysteries.« less