Edward Marston, Author St. Martin's Press $16.95 (236p) ISBN 978-0-312-02970-8
Marston launches a series with this first appearance of Nicholas Bracewell, ``book holder'' for an English theatrical company in 1588. Not only the prompter but also the wise manager of the group, Bracewell must cope with temperamental thespians and
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Edward Marston. Allison & Busby, $25 (320p) ISBN 978-0-7490-2290-7
Set in 1817, Marston’s rollicking fourth Bow Street Rivals mystery (after 2017’s Date with the Executioner) pits bounty hunter twin brothers Peter and Paul Skillen against the Bow Street Runners, London’s first official police force. Three...
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Edward Marston. Allison & Busby, $16.95 trade paper (352p) ISBN 978-0-7490-2148-1
Insp. Robert Colbeck (aka the Railway Detective) has a gruesomely fascinating murder to solve in Marston’s uneven 15th entry in his Victorian mystery series (after The Circus Train Conspiracy). Shortly before Christmas 1860, a headless corpse is...
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Edward Marston, Author Allison & Busby $24.95 (284p) ISBN 978-0-7490-0600-6
Fans of the prolific Edward Marston (The Bawdy Basket, etc.) will welcome back architect Christopher Redmayne and constable Jonathan Bale in their fourth Restoration mystery, The Frost Fair. Since the chief suspect in the murder of an Italian ...
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Edward Marston, Author St. Martin's Press $23.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-312-20391-7
Marston's civilized series set in the theater world of Elizabethan England receives its 10th, expert installment. Gentle and intelligent, Nicholas Bracewell is the book holder of Westfield's Men, a troupe that's under attack from every direction....
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Edward Marston, Author St. Martin's Press $21.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-14305-3
The coarse and treacherous world of Elizabethan theater is brought vividly to life as Lord Westfield's men return for an eighth outing (after The Roaring Boy, 1995), in which jealousy, murder and accusations of blasphemy descend upon the troupe. The
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Edward Marston, Author St. Martin's Press $21.95 (242p) ISBN 978-0-312-13472-3
This third volume of the Domesday Books (after The Ravens of Blackwater) starts off, literally, like a house afire but peters out into standard costume drama, including the rescue from a castle of a kidnapped princess. The year is 1086, two decades...
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Edward Marston, Author St. Martin's Press $21.95 (260p) ISBN 978-0-312-13155-5
As Marston's seventh excellent Elizabethan theater mystery (after The Silent Woman) opens, Lord Westfield's Men are performing in the yard of the Queen's Head when the lead character misses his cue. It's not stage fright: he's dead. Nicholas...
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Edward Marston, Author St. Martin's Press $21.95 (312p) ISBN 978-0-312-11115-1
Sparkling with humor, dramatic twists and deft turns of phrase, the sixth adventure of Marston's Elizabethan acting troupe exhibits all the aplomb and panache that mark its lead player, Lawrence Firethorn. A fire at the Queen's Head, home of...
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Edward Marston, Author St. Martin's Press $18.95 (252p) ISBN 978-0-312-08259-8
Stage manager Nicholas Bracewell must juggle his company, his patron and a murder investigation in Marston's fifth Elizabethan-era theater mystery, which features political intrigue along with low and high comedy. Fellow actors in a troupe called...
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Edward Marston, Author St. Martin's Press $20.95 (245p) ISBN 978-0-312-11330-8
The murder of a Norman lord in late-11th century England brings together Chancery clerk Gervase Bret and highborn soldier Ralph Delchard in a second case, after The Wolves of Savernake. During William the Conqueror's consolidation of power in...
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Edward Marston, Author St. Martin's Press $15.95 (222p) ISBN 978-0-312-05174-7
Marston ( The Merry Devils ) here skillfully develops an engaging tale of murder, politics and general mayhem focused on the travels and tribulations of Westfield's Men, a 16th-century, London-based troupe. As the Great Plague decimates the city,...
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Edward Marston, Author St. Martin's Press $17.95 (235p) ISBN 978-0-312-06426-6
Marston's fourth novel set in the world of Elizabethan theater will have its audience calling for encores. Brimming with life, colorful dialogue and, of course, drama, the story follows the tribulations of Nicholas Bracewell, stage manager of the...
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Edward Marston, Author St. Martin's Press $16.95 (236p) ISBN 978-0-312-03863-2
The return engagement of Lord Westfield's Men, the Elizabethan-era theatrical troupe introduced in The Queen's Head , faces opposition from Puritan factions attempting to stop the premiere of The Merry Devils . The supposedly impious play goes on,...
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Edward Marston, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $23.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-312-26574-8
Murder makes a late entrance in Marston's (The Wanton Angel, etc.) 11th Elizabethan adventure, but enough else of interest is going on to keep the reader engaged. The inn yard of the Queen's Head, London, home of Lord Westfield's Men,...
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Edward Marston, Author Minotaur Books $24.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-312-35618-7
At the start of Marston's spirited 16th entry in his Elizabethan Theater series (after 2005'sThe Malevolent Comedy ), book-holder Nicholas Bracewell and the Westfield Men sail for Denmark with their twice-widowed patron, Lord Westfield, who has been
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Edward Marston, Author Minotaur Books $23.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-312-28542-5
Stock characters and labored prose dampen the otherwise solid historical The Owls of Gloucester, the 10th in Edward Marston's Domesday series to feature 11th-century royal commissioners Ralph Delchard and Gervase Bret, who here investigate the...
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Edward Marston, Author Minotaur Books $23.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-312-25355-4
The eighth of Marston's Domesday books (The Hawks of Delamere, etc.) fails to meet the high standards established by his Edgar-nominated Elizabethan series. In the aftermath of the Norman Conquest, England is still struggling with difficult Norman-Sa
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Edward Marston, Author Minotaur Books $22.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-312-20948-3
Volume seven of Marston's acclaimed Domesday series (The Stallions of Woodstock, etc.), a solid historical mystery, provides plenty of conflict--between church and state, earl and king, Norman and Saxon, English and Welsh--as well as a lesson in...
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Edward Marston, Author Minotaur Books $22.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-312-20021-3
The sixth installment of Marston's solidly written Domesday series (The Serpents of Harbledown, etc.) is every bit as entertaining as its forerunners. Gervase Bret and Ralph Delchard, commissioners to King William the Conqueror, are sent to Oxford,...
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Edward Marston, Author St. Martin's Press $19.95 (242p) ISBN 978-0-312-09942-8
Marston, whose previous mystery series features an Elizabethan theatrical troop, launches a medieval series with a servicably plotted tale set in 11th-century England after the Norman Conquest. Two of William the Conquerer's officials ride through...
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Edward Marston, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $23.95 (245p) ISBN 978-0-312-34283-8
In this lively and entertaining caper, the 15th in Marston's Elizabethan Theater Mystery series (after 2004's The Counterfeit Crank
), the Westfield Players have once again fallen on hard times. "Audiences have been thin of late,"...
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Edward Marston, Author . Allison & Busby $25.95 (261p) ISBN 978-0-7490-0633-4
The prolific Marston (the Domesday Books series, etc.) starts yet another historical mystery series with this middling police procedural that starts well but runs out of steam. Robert Colbeck, a former attorney now serving as an inspector in the...
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Edward Marston, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $24.95 (292p) ISBN 978-0-312-30789-9
Edgar nominee Marston sends in the clowns in his 13th Nicholas Bracewell mystery (after 2002's The Bawdy Basket), once again providing an
engaging look at the life of players in Shakespeare's day, with their aristocratic sponsors, resident...
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Edward Marston, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $23.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-312-28501-2
Edgar nominee Marston (one of several pseudonyms of British author Keith Miles) offers his 12th engaging, leisurely Elizabethan theater mystery (The Devil's Apprentice, etc.) featuring Nicholas Bracewell and Westfield's Men, a tightly knit...
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Edward Marston, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $23.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-312-28088-8
"View halloo!" In this lively, fast-moving tale of medieval England (after 2001's The Wildcats of Exeter), Henry Beaumont's hounds have caught the scent and cornered the fox. But when Beaumont's guests canter up for the kill,...
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Edward Marston, Author, Keith Miles, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $23.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-312-31949-6
Right from the start of British author Marston's clever historical, the 14th entry in his Nicholas Bracewell series (after 2003's The Vagabond Clown
), troubles beset the Westfield Players. Bracewell's sleuthing skills are much needed...
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