Alms for Oblivion by Philip Gooden

Alms for Oblivion by Philip Gooden

By the spring of 1602 Nick Revill is an old hand in the Chamberlain's Company - or so he thinks. When a boyhood friend, Peter Agate, travels from Somerset to London with high ambitions, like Nick, to try his hand on the stage, Nick is only too pleased to show him the ropes. However, within a few days of his arrival, Agate is discovered stabbed in Nick's cheap lodgings and Nick finds himself suspected of murdering his friend. But this is only the beginning of a sequence of violent deaths, each of them implicating Nick and tightening the hangman's noose around his neck. Nick must discover the real murderer among a cast of suspects before he is committed to trial by a hostile Coroner who doesn't hesitate to show is contempt for the players. The pursuit of the murderer takes Nick Revill through fogbound city streets, the Inns of Court, the inside of a Southwark brothel, one of London's most notoriously corrupt prisons, and ultimately to a chase through the English countryside.

- 'The witty narrative, laced with puns and word play so popular in the period, makes this an enjoyable racy tale' Susanna Yager, Sunday Telegraph

Philip Gooden lives in Bath. In addition to his Nick Revill series, Sleep of Death, he is the author of The Guinness Guide to Better English and the editor of The Mammoth Book of Literary Anecdotes. Each of his Nick Revill mysteries revolves around a Shakespearean play mirroring life - in Sleep of Death the play was Hamlet, in this offering it is Troilus and Cressida.

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ISBN 13	9781841193823
ISBN 10	1841193828
Title	Alms for Oblivion
Author	Philip Gooden
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Publisher	Little, Brown Book Group
Year published	2003-04-24
Number of pages	320
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