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The Queen's Cipher by Taylor, David is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Queen's Cipher about?
The truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible. Award-winning investigative reporter David Taylor blends fact and fiction, suspense and satire into a vividly imagined novel in which an Oxford don uncovers a conspiracy of silence over the authorship of Shakespeares plays. The ingenious codes and ciphers of a medieval German monk disappear after his death only for one of his number codes to surface in an Elizabethan spys eye-witness account of what the Virgin Queen was doing behind closed doors. Centuries later, research fellow Freddie Brett deciphers this long-forgotten report in Lambeth Palace Library and finds himself following a trail that leads him to the very book that established the Stratford actors credentials as a playwright and to a shadowy scientific brotherhood that treated drama as a form of mass communication. In unravelling this mystery Brett encounters not only academic opposition but an unseen enemy who will stop at nothing to possess the personal testimony of the man behind Shakespeare. As he races across Europe in search of such a prize, Bretts life is in danger. But he was to know the full story. Even if it kills him! The Queens Cip
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Taylor, David
- Publisher
- David Taylor
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781838221836
- Category
- work of fiction
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