Title: The nine giants
Description: The fiery star, Laurence Firethorn, is hot for a lady, wife of the Lord Mayor elect. A tryst at London's Nine Giants inn is arranged. Meanwhile, the lugubrious landlord of the actors' home base is laid even lower by a plot to take over ownership of the inn. A young apprentice actor is subjected to a horrible assault and a waterman pulls a mangled corpse from the Thames. The drama comes to a climax at the annual Lord Mayor's show as his barge moves grandly down the river.
Subjects: Fiction, Nicholas Bracewell (Fictitious character), History, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Crime, fiction, Great britain, fiction, Bracewell, nicholas (fictitious character), fiction, Elizabeth i, queen of england, 1533-1603, fiction
Places: Great Britain
Time periods: Elizabeth, 1558-1603