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The Conscience of the King (Henry Gresham, Bk 2)
The Conscience of the King - Henry Gresham, Bk 2 Author:Martin Stephen HENRY GRESHAM AND THE SHAKESPEARE CONSPIRACY — In Bath, Robert Cecil, Chief Secretary to the King, summons the gentleman spy Henry Gresham to his deathbed to give his archenemy one final, deadly case. An unknown Cambridge bookseller has obtained devastating correspondence between King James I and Robert Carr, Viscount Rochester, and Gresham is th... more »e one man who can return the letters, saving the monarch from a potentially scandalous downfall.
Also in the bookseller's possession are two stolen manuscripts by Shakespeare. And just as these plays contain a deadly secret, so too does Gresham's mission. Gresham has no cause to realize that he is being used as live bait to draw out a murderous madman who is determined to destroy James I, or that he is set to unravel the truth behind the authorship of the greatest plays the world would ever see.« less