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Overview: Leonard Tourney is considered to be a specialist in creative writing and composition pedagogy. He is known to have authored some scholarly articles in the British literature of the 17th century. The other literary works of author Tourney include a critical Joseph Hall biography, a few short fiction stories, and several historical novels. Recently, Tourney tried his hand at writing William Shakespeare’s fictional memoir.
Genre: Fiction > Mystery/Thriller
1 Time’s Fool (2004)
William Shakespeare is perhaps the most famous and prolific playwright of all time but for all his fortune and fame, little did he know that the greatest drama of his life would not be performed on stage …
When William Shakespeare is contacted by his dark mistress, the former love of his life, the playwright is excited to see her again after so long a separation.
But much to his horror, he finds that the years have not been kind to her; she is now disease ridden and near death … and she intends to blackmail him, threatening to expose their affair to the world unless he pays her considerable doctor’s bills.
A sudden fire cuts their meeting short and takes her life.
Torn between grief and anger, Shakespeare learns that the fire was no accident, and that he is being stalked by a person obsessed with bringing his life to ruin.
Hope soon comes in the form of a small boy, a would-be actor who happened to witness the arson.
As quickly as hope appears, it is snuffed out when the boy is violently murdered. Worse yet, Shakespeare is the primary suspect.
2 The Conjurer’s Daughter (2015)
London, 1599.
William Shakespeare is establishing himself as the best playwright in London, and the construction of the Globe is the final piece of the puzzle.
The Queen advises Shakespeare to visit the conjurer Dr Dee to help determine the dimensions of the Globe that will ensure it is a success.
The Merlin-like Dee shows Shakespeare his Book of Enoch – a supposedly sacred and powerful text written in the language of Adam.
Dee’s old partner Edward Talbot is rumoured to have passed away abroad – but he is back in Dee’s house and refusing to leave without the book.
When Dee dies nine years later, Shakespeare is surprised to find that he has been left the book in Dee’s will.
But when Shakespeare tries to collect the book from the chaplain Raphael Hawkesworth, he finds him hanged, with the marks on his neck suggesting murder.
3 Falstaff’s Murder (2015)
William Shakespeare, only 19 years old but already with a wife and child, leaves Stratford-upon-Avon to pursue a career in theatre in London.
But on the journey he is robbed and kidnapped by a group of highwaymen, led by the aged, round-bellied womaniser John Falstaff.
When Shakespeare wakes up in Oldcastle Hold, Oxfordshire, without his possessions – including his half-finished Comedy of Errors¬ – the lord of the house Falstaff denies any wrongdoing.
Shakespeare becomes a prisoner to Falstaff and is asked to write to write to his father for ransom before he can be released.
However, Shakespeare becomes a favourite of the benign Falstaff, and is more concerned with turning down the unwanted advances of the buxom Mercy Roundy than fleeing the household.
But things take a darker turn when Shakespeare is asked to work as gardener to the house, and he discovers the rotting corpse of his predecessor who tried to make an escape.
A group of actors come to Oldcastle Hold and Shakespeare makes his acting debut as a youth who murders his lover’s father, played by Falstaff.
But life comes to imitate art in the middle of the play when Falstaff is discovered with his throat cut – by the very gardening tool Shakespeare was using.
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