A Shakespeare and Smythe mystery.
Two travellers - Will Shakespeare, a fledgling dramatist, and Symington Smythe, an ostler and aspiring thespian - meet at a roadside inn and decide to cast their lot together for fame and fortune in the cutthroat world of the London theatre in Elizabethan England - but neither was prepared for their offstage encounters with matrimony, mayhem and possible murder . . .
