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Falstaff's Murder by Leonard Tourney
A Mystery of Shakespeare
Publisher: Endeavour Press
Price: 99¢ (as of 08/21/2016 at 8:00 PM ET).
William Shakespeare, only 19 years old but already with a wife and child, leaves Stratford-upon-Avon to pursue a career in theatre in London. But on the journey he is robbed and kidnapped by a group of highwaymen, led by the aged, round-bellied womaniser John Falstaff.
When Shakespeare wakes up in Oldcastle Hold, Oxfordshire, without his possessions — including his half-finished Comedy of Errors — the lord of the house Falstaff denies any wrongdoing. Shakespeare becomes a prisoner to Falstaff and is asked to write to write to his father for ransom before he can be released. However, Shakespeare becomes a favourite of the benign Falstaff, and is more concerned with turning down the unwanted advances of the buxom Mercy Roundy than fleeing the household.
But things take a darker turn when Shakespeare is asked to work as gardener to the house, and he discovers the rotting corpse of his predecessor who tried to make an escape. A group of actors come to Oldcastle Hold and Shakespeare makes his acting debut as a youth who murders his lover's father, played by Falstaff. But life comes to imitate art in the middle of the play when Falstaff is discovered with his throat cut — by the very gardening tool Shakespeare was using.
Framed by the murder and sentenced to hang, Shakespeare knows his only chance of survival is to escape the mad house …
— Falstaff's Murder by Leonard Tourney
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