
Death at the Dolphin: Murder in the House of Shakespeare
A ruined London theatre. A mysterious benefactor. A playwright with a vision. And a small glove said to have belonged to Hamnet Shakespeare, the only son of William Shakespeare.
In Ngaio Marsh’s Death at the Dolphin, these unlikely pieces come together in one of her richest Roderick Alleyn mysteries—a story in which murder inhabits the strange borderland between theatre and reality, performance and truth, the living and the dead.
In this edition of Listen with Gilbert: The Saturday Night Theatre Companion, we go behind the BBC radio production to explore the remarkable world surrounding the…
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