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Alms for oblivion / Philip Gooden.
Van Pelt Library PR6107.O62 A78 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gooden, Philip.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chamberlain's Men (Theater company)--Fiction.
- Chamberlain's Men (Theater company).
- Revill, Nick (Fictitious character)--Fiction.
- Revill, Nick (Fictitious character).
- Actors--England--London--History--17th century--Fiction.
- Actors.
- Murder--Investigation--England--London--History--17th century--Fiction.
- Murder.
- Murder--Investigation.
- History.
- Great Britain--History--Elizabeth, 1558-1603--Fiction.
- Great Britain.
- England--London.
- London (England)--History--17th century--Fiction.
- London (England).
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 281 pages ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- First Carroll and Graf edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2003.
- Summary:
- An actor is dead, and the cast of suspects grows, but the finger of a hostile coroner is pointing directly at amateur detective Nick Revill. With as many twists to its plot as a Shakespearean play and betrayals compounded as often as in Troilus and Cressida, Philip Gooden again offers, as Library Journal notes, "authentic settings and a solid and intriguing plot [that] result in a fine historical mystery."
- With some surprise, actor Nick Revill learns that his boyhood friend Peter Agate has arrived in London, to try his hand at acting. While Nick wants to welcome the competition in his stage company, which is mounting a private production of Troilus and Cressida for the lawyers of the Middle Temple, he is a bit resentful of Agate's warm reception -- but not so resentful, he'd have stabbed his friend to death. Another violent death follows, and it, too, patently implicates Nick.
- An aristocratic pair of siblings, a flashy trouble-maker from a rival troupe, a former actor who once saw the devil onstage -- all stand among Nick's suspects. But the hangman's noose is tightening around his own neck.
- Notes:
- "First published in the UK by Constable, an imprint of Constable & Robinson Ltd 2003"--T.p. verso.
- ISBN:
- 0786711426
- OCLC:
- 52031902
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