An audiobook from a series of “Shakespearean” detective stories by the English writer Philip Gooden. Nick Revill, Shakespeare’s contemporary, an actor from the troupe of the Lord Chamberlain and an amateur sleuth, once again becomes an accidental witness to mysterious and tragic events.
Escaping a London epidemic of plague that has seized the city, the actors travel to Oxford in order to mark the reconciliation of two warring families with a production of “Romeo and Juliet.” However, “the black death” catches up with them there as well. Revill faces a question: does the deadly plague have accomplices among people—and who are they? Too many suspicious coincidences for everything to be explained by natural causes alone.