Title: The
Shakespeare ConspiracyAuthor:
Jeffrey Hunter McQuainPublisher:
Telemachus PressGenre:
Fiction/ThrillerFormat:
Kindle
What
makes a secret worth dying for? That’s what Christopher Klewe, a
brash young professor from Virginia, finds out in Jeffrey Hunter
McQuain’s new thriller “The Shakespeare Conspiracy” when he
stumbles upon the most shocking cover-up in literary history.
On
a rainy Halloween at Washington’s Kennedy Center, a masked killer
brutally stabs Klewe’s best friend. Before dying, the victim
deliberately drops his raincoat across a puddle and scrawls the
letters “SoN” in his own blood.
Investigating
the murder scene, Klewe is joined by Zelda Hart, a married reporter
for The New York Times. They learn the victim’s ear was severed and
find evidence of a 400-year-old secret society. When questioned by
police, Klewe reveals the surprising question he’s been
researching: was Shakespeare black?
Outside
Kennedy Center, they meet a drunken security guard who saw the murder
and swears that “Shakespeare did it.” Klewe and Zelda grow less
skeptical when a figure wearing a Shakespeare mask and wielding an
Elizabethan dagger chases them into the Metro subway system toward
Maryland.
After
being cornered in a remote Maryland cabin by the killer, the two
escape to look for answers at Shakespeare and Company, a famous Paris
bookstore, as well as in London’s Globe Theater. As they solve each
step of the mystery, though, they face new obstacles to overcome and
more clues to unravel in their search for the truth.
Pursued
across two continents by murderers, the desperate Klewe and Zelda
have only three days to solve the strangest mystery of Renaissance
history. The evidence mounts up, drawn from actual anagrams hidden in
Shakespeare’s own words as well as historically accurate
descriptions of Elizabethan paintings and observations made by the
playwright’s contemporaries.
Their
dangerous journey takes them ultimately to Stratford and the Bard’s
final resting place. There the words of the playwright’s epitaph
help thwart the deadly conspiracy.
Once
hailed as “a jaw-dropping premise” by the late columnist William
Safire, “The Shakespeare Conspiracy” is the first novel by a
published Shakespeare expert. It offers readers the twists of a
thrill ride reminiscent of “The Da Vinci Code” as well as that
novel’s excitement of wondering whether its central secret just
might be true. If so, this new thriller has the potential to expose
the biggest literary conspiracy of all time, offering a whole new way
of looking at the world’s greatest writer, William Shakespeare.
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INFORMATION
Jeffrey
Hunter McQuain, who holds a Doctorate in Literary Studies from
American University, is co-author of several popular books, including
“Coined by Shakespeare” and “The Bard on the Brain.” For more
than a dozen years, he served as the researcher for William Safire’s
“On Language” column in The New York Times. A poet and dramatist,
he has also taught college courses in Shakespeare and occasionally
performed in the Bard’s plays. His first novel, “The Shakespeare
Conspiracy,” is based on his nonfiction book “Ebony Swan: The
Case for Shakespeare’s Race.” Dr. McQuain lives in Maryland and
is currently adapting “Ebony Swan” as a stage play.
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Jeffrey’s website.
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