The Vagabond Clown

By Edward Marston

Book Overview

During a performance of their new play, A Trick to Catch a Chaste Lady, Westfield's Men are sabotaged, and they find themselves in the throngs of an audience-player melee. In the midst of the rotten-vegetable battlefield, one of the audience members is found stabbed, and their masterful clown, Barnaby Gill, is discovered with a broken leg.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0749018410
• ISBN13: 9780749018412
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: Allison & Busby
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.1" x 7.7"

Customer Reviews

Thirteenth Book in a Wonderful Series

Edward Marston is the pseudonym of Keith Miles, a fairly prolific and extremely good writer of mainly Elizabethan and medieval mysteries. He has also written mysteries under his own name with both sporting and golf backgrounds. However it is primarily the books that take place earlier in history that I am interested in. He read modern history at Oxford and has had many jobs, including university lecturer, but fortunately...

Marston sends in the clowns!

"The Vagabond Clown" is the latest in the Edward Marston series ("An Elizabethan Theater Mystery Featuring Nicholas Bracewell") and the author continues to maintain hisflair for the dramatic! Once again, Westfield's Men, in which Nicholas is the stagemanager "and all around performer of miracles," find themselves in a lot of trouble! Owing to a devastatingbrawl during one of their performances at the Queen's Head Inn,...

Colorful Elizabethan mystery

The Westfield's Men acting troupe consider themselves very lucky while in London to be based at The Queen's Head Inn. It has an enclosed yard that is perfect as an outdoor theatre and it even has balconies for the aristocrats and wealthy merchants that want to attend a play without mingling with the common folk. When a riot breaks out during a play they are giving, one of their star performers is injured and a man in the...