To read or not to read?With a pulse-pounding thriller like The Shakespeare Plot there's really only one answer. Read it!Journey back in time to danger-filled Elizabethan London. Alice Fletcher is a stagehand at the Globe theatre. When her brother Richard goes missing Alice seeks him with the help of Tom Cavendish servant to the power-hungry Earl of Essex.Coded messages give clues about a treasonous plot against the Queen.