Stalking Shakespeare: A Memoir of Madness, Murder, and My Search for the Poet Beneath the Paint

by Lee Durkee

Book Overview

"A wickedly entertaining" (The New York Times) detective story that chronicles one Mississippi man's relentless search for an authentic portrait of William Shakespeare.

Following his divorce, down-and-out writer and Mississippi exile Lee Durkee holed himself up in a Vermont fishing shack and fell prey to a decades-long obsession with Shakespearian portraiture. It began with a simple premise: despite the prevalence of popular...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1982127147
• ISBN13: 9781982127145
• Release Date: April 2023
• Publisher: Scribner Book Company
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.1"