Alms for oblivion by Philip Gooden
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2003
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2007
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English and Spanish
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670
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Murder turns the table on actor-sleuth Nick Revill in the fourth novel of this popular historical mystery series set in Elizabethan England.
Mask of night by Philip Gooden
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4
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2004
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2008
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632
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Elizabeth I approaches the end of her illustrious reign, the plague is raging in London, and the Privy Council has ordered the theaters closed. Still, author Philip Gooden's fifth novel in the popular Shakespearean series brings us a great mystery as actor-sleuth Nick Revill and the Chamberlain's Men travel to Oxford, where a local physician, Dr. Hugh Fern, has commissioned a private performance of Romeo and Juliet. While Fern's motive is obscure-an attempt to reconcile two feuding families to the prospect of a marriage, perhaps; or maybe simply a ploy to get himself a role in the production-his fate is not. Indeed, he is decidedly dead, when his body is discovered during a performance at the Golden Cross Inn. No matter that the deceased lies inside a locked room or that the pestilence has followed the Chamberlain troupe from London, Revill is convinced Fern has not succumbed to natural causes. Nor is Fern's death the only one that rouses Revill's suspicions. The mysteries multiply as a strange band of men in cowls patrols the town at night, a simple carter meets a baffling end, and a corpse changes its shoes.
An honorable murderer by Philip Gooden
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1
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2005
in
English
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361
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Sword of Shame : a historical mystery by Medieval Murderers
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3
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2006
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2007
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331
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Five enthralling interlinked mysteries from Michael Jecks, Susanna Gregory, Bernard Knight, Ian Morson, and Philip Gooden.
An honourable murder by Philip Gooden
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1
edition published
in
2005
in
English
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101
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The pale companion by Philip Gooden
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3
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2002
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2005
in
English and Spanish
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81
libraries
worldwide
An honourable murderer by Philip Gooden
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Book
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3
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between
2005
and
2008
in
English and Spanish
and held by
37
libraries
worldwide
It is the summer of 1604, many years after the defeat of the Armada, and Spanish diplomats are in London to negotiate a peace treaty. Nick Revill's theatre company is given a ceremonial role at the celebrations. But then a series of suspicious deaths occur and Nick is forced to look closely at those around him.
La muerte de los reyes : intrigas y asesinatos Shakespeareanos by Philip Gooden
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1
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in
2006
in
Spanish
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6
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worldwide
The political atmosphere in the London of 1601 is fraught with conspiracy and treason, as the aging, childless Queen Elizabeth nears the end of her long reign with no direct heir to the British crown. While the Queen's former favorite, the Earl of Essex, plots to protect her throne, his enemies, believing he plans to seize the royal office for himself, hatch counterplots. Intrigue is rife, rebellion is afoot. The Chamberlain's Men, meanwhile, at the request of one of Essex's supporters, are staging William Shakespeare's Richard II, which recounts a monarch's murder, and Nick Revill finds himself not only performing in a play but also acting as a spy for the government. When some of his closest companions in the cast begin dying in bizarre and unfortunate ways Nick realizes it will soon be curtains for himself unless he can finger the culprit in the company and figure out who is the mastermind behind the Essex rebellion.
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