Stage manager for one of Elizabethan England's famed acting companies, Nicholas Bracewell investigates the brutal murder of a hot-headed actor and uncovers a conspiracy that leads to the court of Elizabeth I

The Queen's Head

Literature & Fiction

MARSTON, Edward

Contemporary

St Martins Pr

The Merry Devils

Nicholas Bracewell, a member of Lord Westfield's Men, an acting troupe, investigates the mysterious death of an actor playing a devil during a performance of the play, "The Merry Devils"

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Traveling from plague-ridden Elizabethan London to York, Nicholas Bracewell and his acting troupe, Lord Westfield's Men, mourn the sudden death of one member, learn that their arch-rivals are pirating their best plays, and suspect an even more menacing conspiracy

The Trip to Jerusalem: An Elizabethan Whodunit

While his acting troupe, Lord Westfield's Men, searches for a new home--and finds it in The Nine Giants--stage manager Nicholas Bracewell is confronted by the murder of a young man

The Nine Giants

The Mad Courtesan is the fifth in Edward Marston's Elizabethan theater series featuring stage manager Nicholas Bracewell and the colorful acting troupe Lord Westfield's Men. In this novel, a vicious rivalry erupts between two of the actors: Owen Elias, a surly, envious Welshman, and Sebastian Carrick, the amiable and attractive son of a gentleman, begin to have increasingly realistic duels on stage. When Sebastian is found in a Clerkenwell alley with his head split open by an axe, an uneasiness grips the company. But as Nick, ever calm and confident, begins to investigate Sebastian's mysterious life and death, he learns that Carrick's acting prowess, weakness for women, and unwillingness to repay loans have made him several enemies, both in and out of the troupe. When Nick digs further, he finds himself embroiled in a web of deception and danger that stretches to the Virgin Queen herself.

The Mad Courtesan

In Norman England, in 1086, a royal tribunal discovers a terrible murder in the village of Bedwyn, and soldier Ralph Delchard and clerk Gervase Bret chase a potentially nonhuman killer.

The Wolves of Savernake: A Novel (Domesday Books, vol. 1)

st.martins press

Edward Marston's new mystery novel continues the adventures of Nicholas Bracewell, book holder for an Elizabethan theater troupe, who handles myriad practical details, soothes wounded egos, navigates backstage politics, and arranges each evening's performance of a play by Lord Westfield's Men. The Silent Woman begins with fire, a catastrophe that displaces the troupe from its London home and sends it on the road to earn its keep. Before the actors depart, Nicholas is troubled by a terrible event: a young woman, disguised as a man, is murdered before she can deliver an urgent message to him. His heart is further burdened by a quarrel with Anne Hendrik, the kind woman with whom he has reached a mutual understanding. The traveling band of actors keeps Nicholas fully occupied. Lawrence Firethorn, the troupe's lead performer, encounters the consequences of seducing women; playwright Edmund Hoode suffers the fears and doubts of his profession; an outbreak of the plague threatens to quash the tour. Even as he guides Lord Westfield's Men through the English countryside, Nick's mind returns to the murdered girl. Finally, he takes leave to pursue a mystery that sends him back to his childhood home. Filled with colorful characters, rich in authentic historical detail, romance, and the particulars of Elizabethan theater, The Silent Woman is the most ambitious novel yet in this series.

The Silent Woman

The second volume of the Domesday Books, set shortly after the Norman Conquest in England, follows Soldier Ralph Delchard and lawyer Gervase Bret as they are drawn into the investigation into the murder of a powerful landholder's son.

The Ravens of Blackwater: A Novel (Domesday Books, 2)

Another Elizabethan theater mystery finds theater manager Nicholas Bracewell trying to save his company by solving the murder their play--a domestic drama about a sensational murder case--is based on. By the author of The Silent Woman.

The Roaring Boy

The actors of Lord Westfield's Men and their stage manager, Nicholas Bracewell, are accused of heresy, especially after admitting a sacriligious playwright to their group, and when murder befalls the troupe, Bracewell is forced to find the killer before he can strike once again.

The Laughing Hangman: A Novel

British & Irish

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