Edited by: Anne Perry, Jeffery Deaver, Margaret Frazer,

A stellar cast of today's finest mystery authors have come up with rapier-sharp mystery stories--inspired by Shakespeare's life, times, and works. Each story in this collection offers murderous intrigue worthy of the Bard himself, assuring us that Shakespeare lives on...and that the rest of us are quite mortal indeed.

Complete list of stories: (All stories copyright 2002)

• All the World's a Stage
      Jeffery Deaver
• Those are Pearls That Were His Eyes
      Carole Nelson Douglas
• The Fall of the House of Oldenborg
      Robert Barnard
• Jack Hath Not His Jill
      Sharan Newman
• Gracious Silence
      Gillian Linscott
• A Dish of Poison
      Lillian Stewart Carl
• Too Many Cooks
      Marcia Talley
• Squinting at Death
      Edward marston
• Exit, Pursued
      Simon Brett
• Richard's Children"
      Brendan DuBois
• This World's Eternity
      Margaret Frazer
• Cleo's Asp
      Edward D. Hoch
• Much Ado About Murder
      Kathy Lynn Emerson
• The Serpent's Tooth
      P. C. Doherty
• The Duke's Wife
      Peter Robinson
• Let the Game Begin!
      Peter Tremayne
• Ere I Killed Thee
      Anne Perry