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The Pale Companion: A Shakespearean Murder Mystery
The Pale Companion A Shakespearean Murder Mystery Author:Philip Gooden It is midsummer in the year 1601. Nick Revill and his fellow actors of the company known as the Chamberlain's Men are journeying across the Wiltshire Downs for a country-house presentation of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. It should be a pleasant well-paid jaunt to celebrate a noble marriage, but instead the players find themselves in ... more »the midst of a tense family atmosphere, somehow linked to the omnipresence of the household's sinister steward. Very soon Nick finds that the Dream has turned into a nightmare, where murder appears commonplace, and before too long he must fight to save his own life against the ancient backdrop of Stonehenge...« less