The Pale Companion Author:Philip Gooden Midsummer 1601. Nick Revill and his fellow actors in the Chamberlain's Men are journeying across the Wiltshire Downs for a country-house presentation of his friend and mentor Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. But what should be a pleasant, well-paid jaunt to celebrate a noble wedding gets worse and worse, with a sinister arranged marriage... more », a possible suicide, and finally a case of outright murder against an ancient backdrop of Stonehenge.« less