To the outside world, Tom Pryne is an orphan traveling Elizabethan England with his uncle-s theater troupe. In actuality, -Tom- is Viola, in disguise because her parents- Catholic sympathies have put them at odds with the law and forced them into hiding. When the troupe arrives in the sleepy little town of Stratford-on-Avon, Viola-s uncle is arrested for murder, and she joins forces with young Will Shakespeare, a local boy with a penchant for trouble and a smart turn of phrase, to uncover the real culprit.
- ISBN: 9781416986607
- Author: MacDonald, Bailey
- Published: 2009, Aladdin
- Themes: Childhood and youth, Detectives, disguises, Mystery, Orphans, Theater, William Shakespeare
- Descriptors: England (UK), Historical Fiction, Intermediate (ages 9-14)
- No. of pages: 208