When an old friend and colleague passes away, an LSU English professor named Jack Claire travels to Swansea, Wales, to attend the funeral and is bequeathed a cache of handwritten manuscripts, the plays of William Shakespeare, along with a rare, leatherbound copy of the First Folio the first collection of Shakespeares plays. A problem arises, however, when he recognizes that the handwriting is NOT William Shakespeares. He returns to Baton Rouge with and attempts to authenticate the documents, inadvertently alerting a ruthless collector who covets these priceless literary artifacts. The collector hires a relentless mercenary to steal the Shakespeare papers. Benedict resorts to violence when his surreptitious searches fail. In California, Joseph Lawrence Conrad, a handsome young college instructor, receives mysterious handwritten original plays of Shakespeare. Not an Elizabethan scholar, Joe Conrad seeks the help of a colleague named Jonathan "Smitty" Smythe, a literary Sherlock Holmes to Joes Watson. At once, Smitty recognizes the potential of the manuscripts and enlists the aid of Silvia Williamson, a brilliant and beautiful AfricanAmerican scholar from Berkeley. As these three amateur sleuths labor to authenticate the manuscripts and determine the true author of Shakespeares plays, they learn someone is after the priceless papers and hes leaving a trail of bodies in his wake. Eventually, everyone connected to the Shakespeare papers is in danger, including Joes wife and...

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