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File Size: 974 KB
Print Length: 448 pages
Publisher: Witness Impulse (September 9, 2014)
Publication Date: September 9, 2014
Language: English
ASIN: B00ICN507U
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Rory Clements Martyr is a a decent read and pretty good mystery. It's definitely not the very best history with some rather sloppy inaccuracies and more then a few anachronisms. The story, which centers upon a Spanish attempt to murder Francis Drake prior to the Armada invasion is well drawn and plausible. Tension and dislike among competing Court factions rooting out Catholic recusancy is also nicely done. And the growing intolerance toward Catholics leading up to 1588 I thought was actually very good.Like many modern writers the author does have trouble capturing aTudor sensibility. He definitely needs a better facts editor to double check his historical inaccuracies which start at the very beginning. Investigator John Shakespeare is called to investigate a suspicious fire. Witnesses relate a thatch roof ablaze and Shakespeare commends the citizen brigade for dousing the blaze quickly. Didn't happen.Thatch roofs were illegal in Tudor London precisely because of the risk of fire. Only an idiot would have made of roof from thatch/straw. No neighbor would have lived next to one in an urban setting because of the reckless disregard for conflagration, which was genuinely terrifying to London residents. Roofs were required by law to be slate or stone (many cheated with wood covered in plaster but nobody could conceal what was in effect a great straw bonnet on an edifice). Neighbors and the constabulary would have torn the building down.Which segues into the another problem: no fire brigades. In Tudor Times there wasn't enough water on hand to douse a building fire. They were "fought" by literally tearing down adjoining structures, creating a breach in the fire wall. Built almost entirely of wood, London was highly combustible (ask anyone around in 1666) and essentially a tinderbox. Depending upon the extent of the blaze or wind "fire fighting" consisted of pulling down whole blocks of buildings. There were no sodden, soaked ruins to poke through.The book is littered with these small mistakes which aren't the end of the world--just sloppy. More disturbing is Clements propensity to ascribe modern sensibilities to Walsingham's investigator. John Shakespeare has an entirely new-fangled attitude about torture thinking it ineffective and distasteful. Nonsense. No decent employee of the Crown considered a witness (those of low birth--the nobility by law couldn't be tortured) properly interrogated UNLESS they were tortured. Misgivings would have been regarded as worse than womanish and dangerously sentimental. They certainly would not have been voiced to Francis Walsingham who would have sent the fool packing.There is a positively goofy kindness to "all creatures great and small". Stumbling upon a crowd tormenting a beached leviathan, Shakespeare has the whale put out of its misery. Unlikely. Animal suffering was regarded as delightful entertainment in Tudor England. Bear and bull baiting, cock fights and dog fights were a standard good time. The French and Spanish regarded English enthusiasm for blood sport with distaste and it can be said the populace shared a sensibility more akin to ancient Rome then to our own. If indeed anyone had behaved as Shakespeare did the crowd might well have made sport of him.The rest of the tale isn't bad. I did think at times it lagged, and who knows? Perhaps the author and his publisher are right that modern readers wouldn't develop a liking for an authentic Tudor type. I wish then they would just withhold the social commentary which is skewed and anachronistic. But perhaps that's just me. Others may not care. Martyr is a mixed blessing: not too bad but not too good.
As a fan of historical fiction, I had low expectations for this book. Seriously, a mystery/suspense novel set in Elizabethan England with a fictional hero who is supposed to be a brother of William Shakespeare? C'mon.... But I needed a potboiler for an airplane ride and the price was right, i.e., cheap. And in the end, I was very pleasantly surprised. This is a reasonably well-written book with pretty good plot, characters you can care about, and the historical setting provides a great back-drop for the suspenseful story. I was worried that the author would try to use William Shakespeare as a major character in the book, which would be completely implausible. Instead, he wisely chose to give the great playwright only a very brief cameo appearance, one that was appropriate to the story. Nonetheless, I'm not even sure why the author chose to make his central character a fictional sibling of the Bard - that choice really has no meaningful connection to the story. The main character could have had any origin in the Elizabethan middle class and he would have been appropriately drawn. That aside, I did enjoy the book and, if I need another potboiler for a future flight, I'm very likely to pick up the next book in this series, if only to see how the character develops and what other events in Elizabeth's reign can be connected to the fictional agent, John Shakespeare. For the record, by the way, William Shakespeare did have 7 siblings and his father's name was John, so it was pretty easy for the author the make a plausible connection to the playwright without messing up history very much.
In a burned out house is found the murdered body of Lady Blanche Howard, a cousin of Queen Elizabeth. An intercepted message reveals that there is a plot to assassinate Sir Francis Drake who is preparing to defend England against the Spanish Armada. Intelligence agent John Shakespeare (a fictional brother of William) is assigned the duty of seeing to the protection of Drake and to discovering the murderer of Lady Blanche. He soon begins to believe that there is a connection between the murder of Lady Blanche and the plot against Sir Francis.This is the first book in the John Shakespeare series that Mr. Clements wrote. Not only do we meet Elizabethan England's most remarkable investigator but we get a fascinating tale of mystery, murder and conspiracy. The author does a very good job of placing the reader into Elizabethan England with descriptions of clothing, food, travel, social status, and the atmosphere of religious and political conspiracies that were rife at that time. The characters are very well fleshed out and one can hate some and have sympathy for others but evil will often win out over goodness which was a fact of life at that time.History tells us that Drake was not assassinated and went on to defeat the Spanish armada. Knowing that, one is still intrigued with the steps and plots that were used by his protectors and by his would be assassins. A surprise twist is given at the end as to the murderer of Lady Blanche. The way that is resolved may not please modern readers but, well, that is the way things were in Elizabethan England.
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