Sleep of Death - Philip Gooden Reviews
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Newest Review: ... seemingly peaceful death of his father, who was found dead in a hammock in his garden. However, his mother soon marries her ... more
... brother in law and the similarities between the real life death and the death of Hamlets father becomes obvious.
I enjoy reading the Medieval murderers series of novels in which a distinguished British medieval murder author contributes a short novellas all with the same theme. Phillip Gooden often contributes a story featuring Nick Revell and the plays of Shakespeare in Elizabethan London, this was however, the first novel I'd read with Nick on his own so to speak. However, I wasn't disappointed the story was well th...more
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Customer Sleep of Death - Philip Gooden Reviews (2)
by - written on 07/12/12 (Very useful, 51 readings)
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The sleep of death is a murder mystery set in Shakespearean England; the book follows the plot of Shakespeare's Hamlet set in real-life Elizabethan England. The main character is Nicholas Revell, a player for the Lord Chamberlains men; Nick is a small time actor for the company whose main writer is one William Shakespeare. Nick is thrown out of his lodgings after an altercation with his landlady over a bedpan and has to seek alternate arrangements, when he thwarts the nefarious antics of a steward of a wealthy lady at the theatre her son asks him to lodge with them. The son also asks him to look into the seemingly peaceful death of his father, who was found dead in a ... Read the complete review
Murder? That is the question. (919 words)by - written on 02/05/12 (Very useful, 75 readings)
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Having previously read a couple of the Medieval Murderers anthologies, the novellas written by Philip Gooden and featuring his Elizabethan actor/sleuth, Nick Revill were the ones which grabbed my attention the most. 'Sleep of Death' is the first in a series of historical mysteries featuring Nick who in this first tale is introduced as a young aspiring actor, fairly recently arrived in London to seek his fame and fortune and purely by chance he stumbles into temporary employment in Southwark at the Globe Theatre with the Chamberlain's Men managed by Richard Burbage. After a rather unpleasant incident involving a chamber pot which results in him being made homeless, Nick Read the complete review
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