Much ADO about Murder

Young Will Shakespeare and his apprentice actor sidekick, ostler Tuck Smythe, look into the slaying of a well-to-do London merchant while the plague has closed all London theaters in Simon Hawke's engaging third outing for his Elizabethan Holmes and Watson, Much Ado About Murder (not be to confused with the anthology of the same name noted above). The dead man's daughter, a ravishing ""dark lady,"" provides the focus for this merry whodunit.