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    The Devil's Apprentice

    By Edward Marston

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    Winter, Witchcraft and Devilish Deceit. Faced with the austerities of a bitterly cold English winter, the theatre is deserted and Westfield's Men find themselves out of work. Fortuitously, the company is invited to perform at a country home in Essex; welcome news to the disgruntled players. The company decide it's the perfect opportunity to trial their new play, The Witch of Colchester. However, when the group's leading actor begins to fall mysteriously ill, the company fear witchcraft might be involved. Then on the performance night, an audience member inexplicably collapses and dies, paving the way for Nicholas Bracewell to uncover the cause of the strange events taking place in Silvermere.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAllison & Busby
    Release dateFeb 13, 2014
    ISBN9780749015169
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    Edward Marston

    Edward Marston has written well over a hundred books, including some non-fiction. He is best known for his hugely successful Railway Detective series and he also writes the Bow Street Rivals series featuring twin detectives set during the Regency; the Home Front Detective novels set during the First World War; and the Ocean Liner mysteries.

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      I'm having a hard time describing the nature of this novel. Is it a romp? Is it an adventure or is it a mystery? One thing is certain, the author is good at placing us in the time period and for a while having us living alongside characters from Elizabethan England.The story revolves around a theater troupe who are enticed to take on Davy, the son of a wealthy man. There is a condition however, it needs to be performed at a manor outside of London instead of at the heart of the city where the company usually plays. From the moment the theater company takes on Davy things start to go wrong in mysterious ways and we're left to wonder what mysterious forces are at work. Of course this is a mystery and in the end everything is explained away without the use of supernatural forces. Unfortunately the author was in such a strange hurry to wrap up the book that he didn't explain the cause of some of the early completely inexplicable events.Reading this novel puts you smack in Elizabethan times, except that the author uses some tropes a little bit too much. About a quarter in I got really tired of the mentioning of chamber pots.