Shakespearean Whodunnits

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Twenty new, specially commissioned stories, starring Shakespearean detectives Falstaff, Mark Antony, and Orlando, focus on investigating the dire deeds in Shakespeare's plays--for example, Romeo and Juliet's deaths, Falstaff's setup in The Merry Wives of Windsor, and Cleopatra's suicide. As the Bard would say, Murder most foul.

Introduction: Shakespeare's mysteries / Mike Ashley
King John: When the dead rise up / John T. Aquino
Richard II: The death of kings / Margaret Frazer
Henry IV: A villainous company / Susanna Gregory
Henry V: The death of Falstaff / Darrell Schweitzer
Henry VI: A serious matter / Derek Wilson
Richard III: A shadow that dies / Mary Reed & Eric Mayer
Coriolanus: Mother of Rome / Molly Brown
Timon of Athens: Buried fortune / Peter T. Garratt
Julius Caesar: Cinna the poet / Tom Holt
Cymbeline: Imogen / Paul Barnett
King Lear: Serpent's tooth / Martin Edwards
Macbeth: Toil and trouble / Edward D. Hoch
Hamlet: A sea of troubles / Steve Lockley
A midsummer-night's dream: A midsummer eclipse / Stephen Baxter
Much ado about nothing: Much ado about something / Susan B. Kelly
The winter's tale: Who killed Mamillius? / Amy Myers
Twelfth night: This is Illyria, Lady / Kim Newman
Romeo and Juliet: Star-crossed / Patricia A. McKillip
The two gentlemen of Verona: The banished men / Keith Taylor
The taming of the shrew: The shrewd taming of Lord Thomas / Mary Monica Pulver
Othello: Not wisely, but too well / Louise Cooper
As you like it: Murder as you like it / F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre
The merchant of Venice: the house of Rimmon / Cherith Baldry
Epilogue: All is true: An ensuing evil / Peter Tremayne
All the plays: The collaborator / Rosemary Aitken.