Steven Duggan
ASIN: B00EISNWFU
Publisher: Oyster Books
Pages: 71
Kit Marlowe and Will Shakespeare are jobbing actors in Elizabethan London. Down-at-heel and looking for an adventure, they jump at the chance offered by a visiting Norwegian nobleman, Fortinbras, who wishes to solve the mystery behind his inheritance of a castle in Helsinore, Denmark. Apparently, the previous owner Klaus and his wife were murdered by Klaus's stepson, Amleth. The only witness to the events however - a college friend of Amleth's called Horatio - was dispatched by one of Fortinbras' s solders before his tale could be told.Armed only with Will's powers of deduction and Kit's skill with a blade, they sail to Denmark and are soon embroiled in the mysteries and dangers of life in this remote keep. From the brothels and alehouses of Helsinore to the University of Copenhagen, they must match their wits against a cast of characters apparently determined to prevent them from ...