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The Bawdy Basket (Elizabethan Theater Mysteries) | 
 enlarge | Author: Edward Marston
Publisher: St. Martin's Minotaur
Category: Book
Buy New: £18.92
New (6) Used (11) from £14.23
Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 704752
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Pages: 288
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 6.3 x 0.9
ISBN: 0312285019
EAN: 9780312285012
ASIN: 0312285019
Publication Date: August 2002
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 The Twelfth in the Series December 1, 2006
J. Chippindale (England)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Edward Marston is the pseudonym of Keith Miles, a fairly prolific and extremely good writer of mainly Elizabethan and medieval mysteries. He has also written mysteries under his own name with both sporting and golf backgrounds. However it is primarily the books that take place earlier in history that I am interested in. He read modern history at Oxford and has had many jobs, including university lecturer, but fortunately for all his readers, he turned to the writing profession.
Another excellent offering about the troupe of actors known as Lord Westfield's Men. Once again the group are under threat. This time they risk losing both its creative genius and more importantly its financial backing. The troubles begin with the execution of a prosperous businessman Gerald Quilter, unjustly convicted of murder. Quilter's son, Frank has recently joined the troupe and is determined to clear his father's name and perhaps unwisely Nicholas Bracewell, the company manager and solver of many of the problems that have overtaken the group in the past, agrees to help, but what will be the consequences for Lord Westfield's Men . . .
The author's love for the Elizabethan theatre comes shining through this series of books. Plus his knowledge of the period fills the pages with authenticity and the sights and sounds of the streets and inns of Elizabethan London.
 Marston stages another success! February 10, 2003
Billy J. Hobbs (Tyler, TX USA)
14 out of 15 found this review helpful
It's the 12th episode of Edward Marston's Elizabethan Theater Mystery Featuring
Nicholas Bracewell, and if you've stayed with the series so far, you are assured of
another exciting foray into murder, mayhem, and mystery in 17th century Merry
Olde England. Once again, Westfield's Men find themselves facing the usual
plethora of problems, some theatrical, some personal, some criminal (that is to say,
"murderous"). Once again, it appears that this illustrious and dynamic theatrical
troupe will face its final curtain! In "The Bawdy Basket," young actor Frank
Quilter's father has just been executed at Smithfield. Believing him to have been
innocently condemned, Frank sets out to right the wrong and to return honor and
dignity to his family name. He enlists his friend Nick Bracewell to help him. Of
course, clearing this case is not so simple, as the pathways to righteousness are
indeed anything but straight and narrow. Winding through the alleys and byways of
London, the duo run into all kinds of obstacles. In addition, Edmund Hoode, the company's irreplaceable playwright, has
fallen in love once again and is determined to leave the theater, much to the
consternation of the rest. That problem has to be be solved. And Marston does solve all the problems, of course. Despite his usual stilted
dialogue, the book runs true to course. "The Bawdy Basket" further illustrates the
conditions and situations of Elizabethan England and for students of medieval history (and who love historical myteries), this episode deserves a standing ovation ...
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