The Shakespeare Chronicles Author:James Boyle As featured on NPR/WUNC's "The State of Things".. A novel that is part literary mystery, part historical detective story, built around an obsessive search for the true author of Shakespeare's works. — Stanley Quandary is a professor of English and a very ordinary man. But then he starts to have the strangest, most realistic dreams, drea... more »ms that seem to solve one of the greatest mysteries of all time, to expose a conspiracy of silence that is over 400 years old. They even suggest a way to win back his estranged wife. Of course, he might be going insane... .« less