Players' Boy is Dead Author:Leonard Tourney There is much that is entertaining in Elizabethan England, colorful and merrie for both Good Queen Bess and her people. But there are matters savage and murderous, too, and it is the County Constable Matthew Stock, a humble clothier by trade, and his practical-minded wife Joan who oft must set things right - in a widely acclaimed mystery series ... more »as rich in historical detail as it is in suspense.
They Were A Small Player's Troupe, Come To Perform For A Lord And His Lady....
And none of the rag-tag group shone more than the young players' boy, with his flaxen hair and fine features. Indeed, he had won a scullery maid's heart, and it was she, at cock's crow, who went searching for him in the stables where he slept. But, alas, she found him dead - murdered in a most gruesome way. And now Constable Matthew must search high and low, form a Lord's castle to a disreputable inn, to find the person who dealt such an ungodly blow....« less