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Mask of Night
Book 5 in the Nick Revill series.
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London and Oxford, 1603. Plague has closed the public theatres, so the Chamberlain’s Men accept a private commission to perform Romeo and Juliet at an Oxford inn. Their patron, physician Hugh Fern, may be trying to reconcile two hostile families through a marriage, or merely to secure a place for himself in the production.
Fern is found dead in a locked room during the performance, and other inexplicable deaths follow as cowled figures patrol the streets. Nick Revill investigates a town anxious about infection, where medical authority, family honour and theatrical illusion make it difficult to tell natural death from a carefully staged murder.
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