Cry Murder! in a Small Voice

By Greer Gilman

Winner of the Shirley Jackson Award.

London, 1603. Ben Jonson, playwright, poet, satirist . . . detective? Someone is murdering choir boys and Jonson, in the way that only Greer Gilman could write him "Fie, poetastery." is compelled to investigate.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Small Beer Press
• Release date: Sep 16, 2013
• ISBN: 9781618730787

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Reviews for Cry Murder! in a Small Voice

[jen6e6moore · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

This was a delightful little book all full of Elizabethan everything - plays, faeries, corruption. From the point of view of Ben Johnson, and written exactly as you might imagine Ben Johnson thought, made up of quotes and rhymes and allusions. If you haven't spent some time with Elizabethan poets it's probably completely incomprehensible. I loved it.

[schant-1 · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

A slop-pail of Elizabethan babble to no purpose. Couldn't be bothered to finish.