In their ingenious tales, the likes of Falstaff and Hamlet, as well as the Bard himself, are set in hot pursuit of fresh clues and new solutions to some of the bloodiest plots and nastiest deeds hidden in Shakepeare's plays.

Contents:

• War Hath Made All Friends by Edward Marston
• A Gift for Killing by Susanna Gregory
• The Chimes at Midnight by Cherith Baldry
• A Man of Middle-Earth by Gail-Nina Anderson
• All is True by Stephen Baxter
• Murdered by Love by Darrell Schweitzer
• The Wine-Dark Cup by Claire Griffen
• The Fire That Burneth Here by Anne Gay
• As Near to Lust as Flame to Smoke by Andy Lane
• Stolen Affections by Lawrence Schimel & Jeffrey Marks
• Three Meetings and a Funeral by Lois Gresh & Robert Weinberg
• A Good Report of the Worm by Tom Holt
• A Kind of Wild Justice by Ron Tiner
• The Duke of Dark Corners by Gail-Nina Anderson
• Love’s Labour’s Discover’d by Phyllis Ann Karr
• As Strange a Maze as E’er Men Trod by David Langford
• We Are for the Dark by Stan Nicholls
• Footsteps in the Snow by Amy Myers
• The Price of Virginity by Paul Barnett
• That Same Pit by Margaret Frazer
• Murder Most Foul by Richard Butler
• Love’s Labour’s, Lost? by Peter T. Garratt
• Beneath Which Hour? by Peter Valentine Timlett
• Methought You Saw a Serpent by Peter Tremayne
• Desdemona’s Daughter by Edward D. Hoch
• Conspiracy Theory by Tina & Tony Rath
• The Name-Catcher’s Tale by John T. Aquino
• Master Eld, His Wayzgoose by Chaz Brenchley
• Fortune’s Other Steward by Mary Reed & Eric Mayer