num_pages: 240
description: Two travelers, Will Shakespeare-a fledgling dramatist, and Symington Smythe, an ostler and aspiring thespian, meet at a roadside inn and decide to cast their lot together for fame and fortune in the cutthroat world of the London theater in Elizabethan England . . . but neither was prepared for their offstage encounter with A Mystery of Errors . When a backer's daughter is double-crossed by a would-be suitor, the reluctant bride turns to the ostler and the playwright for help.  Little does anyone realize that these simple affairs of the heart and an arranged marriage will lead to a vast web of conspiracy, mistaken identity, and murder that finds the playwright targeted for assassination and the ostler hopelessly in love. But such matters are routine in A Mystery of Errors , where Shakespeare in Love meets the Brother Cadfael mysteries of Ellis Peters.
language: English
title: A Mystery of Errors
titlecomplete: A Mystery of Errors (Shakespeare & Smythe, #1)
genres: Mystery, Fiction, British Literature, Crime, Historical, Historical Fiction, Adventure, Historical Mystery
ratings_count: 211
series: Shakespeare & Smythe
publisher: Tor Books