University lecturer Ben Brown receives an early-morning phone call form a former student, Margo Muretti. She has found a 17th century will in which Louis Moreau, a French immigrant living in London, bequeaths handwritten Shakespearean manuscripts to his daughter. So begins a quest for the priceless manuscripts. Ben and his literary agent Ilsa Bennet are stunned to find a trail of clues that could lead to the biggest literary find in modern history. And unless they can decipher the complex clues - each one a Shakespearean quotation - the priceless manuscripts will fall into the wrong hands and be lost forever...
University lecturer Ben Brown receives an early-morning phone call form a former student, Margo Muretti. She has found a 17th century will in which Louis Moreau, a French immigrant living in London, bequeaths handwritten Shakespearean manuscripts to his daughter. So begins a quest for the priceless manuscripts. Ben and his literary agent Ilsa Bennet are stunned to find a trail of clues that could lead to the biggest literary find in modern history. And unless they can decipher the complex clues - each one a Shakespearean quotation - the priceless manuscripts will fall into the wrong hands and be lost forever...