Title: The Shakespeare Conspiracy
Author: Jeffrey Hunter McQuain
Publisher: Telemachus Press
Genre: Fiction/Thriller
Format: Kindle
Author: Jeffrey Hunter McQuain
Publisher: Telemachus Press
Genre: Fiction/Thriller
Format: 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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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.
For More Information
Visit Jeffrey’s website.
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