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The Nine Giants

The Nine Giants
By Edward Marston

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"Marston's wit and vivid evocation of Elizabethan London's sights and smells provide a delightfully ribald backdrop for this clever series." -Publishers Weekly .,."all the swashbuckling thrills and romantic swagger of the blood-and-thunder tragedies that are meat and drink to Westfield's Men." -New York Times Book Review The fiery star, Laurence Firethorn, is hot for a lady, wife of the Lord Mayor elect. A tryst at London's Nine Giants inn is arranged. Meanwhile, the lugubrious landlord of the actors' home base is laid even lower by a plot to take over ownership of the inn. A young apprentice actor is subjected to a horrible assault. And a waterman pulls a mangled corpse from the Thames. The drama comes to a climax at the annual Lord Mayor's show as his barge moves grandly down the river.... "As rich in background color, language, and vivid characters as it is in plot structure, Marston has another winner here." -Kirkus Reviews Originally published in 1991, it is the fourth in series following Poisoned Pen Press' republications of The Queen's Head, The Merry Devils, and The Trip to Jerusalem.

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #748781 in Books
  • Published on: 2007-10-01
  • Original language: English
  • Dimensions: .49" h x 5.52" w x 8.42" l, .59 pounds
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 220 pages

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly
Marston's fourth novel set in the world of Elizabethan theater will have its audience calling for encores. Brimming with life, colorful dialogue and, of course, drama, the story follows the tribulations of Nicholas Bracewell, stage manager of the acting troupe Lord Westerfield's Men. As he oversees rehearsals and performances, Bracewell must also salve the fragile egos of actor and ladies' man Lawrence Firethorn; lovelorn and talented playwright and actor Edmund Hoode; and even aspiring poet Abel Strudwick, a humble waterman who ferries passengers across the river Thames. On Strudwick's boat Bracewell and the waterman discover a corpse in the river that may be linked to misfortunes assailing the company and to a crime that is close to home for Bracewell. Young hatter apprentice Hans Kippel, who works for Bracewell's landlady and lover, Anne Hendrik, returns from an errand traumatized and with alarming loss of memory. Has he witnessed something terrible? Meanwhile, the landlord of the inn that is home to the players plans to sell his premises. At another inn, known as The Nine Giants, the actors try out a new venue and the drama comes to a stirring conclusion.
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From Library Journal
Stage manager Nicholas Bracewell strug gles against unknown murderers and those who would oust the theater company from its quarters.
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From Kirkus Reviews
Stage manager Nicholas Bracewell, resourceful hero of this series set in Elizabethan England (The Trip to Jerusalem, etc.), now takes on a new and daunting set of problems for Lord Westfield's Men, his beloved acting company. Fiery leading man Lawrence Firethorn has once again targeted a young beauty for seduction--this time it's Matilda, newly wed to wealthy merchant and Lord Mayor Elect Walter Stanford, presently mourning the death of his nephew Michael, whose savagely beaten body was pulled from the Thames. Meanwhile, Nicholas's mistress is Anne Hendrik, a widow who competently runs her late husband's millinery workshop. Her young apprentice Hans Kippel has been the victim of an attack so violent it's left him without memory and subject to constant nightmares. Overriding all of this is the threat that the company may lose its London home, The Queen's Head Inn. Pompous brewer and Alderman Rowland Ashway wants to add it to his string of public houses, and he's backed by the present Lord Mayor, who's scheming mightily to retain his office. All these happenings, and many more, eventually form a pattern that the stalwart Nicholas can comprehend and overcome. As rich in background color, language and vivid characters as it is in plot structure, Marston has another winner here. -- Copyright ©1991, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.