William Leith

Dark and creepy

The Folio Book of Historical Mysteries, edited by Ian Pindar<br /> <br type="_moz" />

issue 13 December 2008

The Folio Book of Historical Mysteries, edited by Ian Pindar

This book, which is a collection of 20 essays on events and people from history, first seriously caught my attention when I started reading the piece about Shakespeare. Of course, I’d always had the nagging sense, on the fringes of my mind, that some people questioned Shakespeare’s authorship.

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