From the Jamestown Shakespeare Manuscripts comes the first hard-boiled detective story ever written; possibly, the most thrilling. In 1588, in Venice, the daughter of a white senator eloped with the commander of the armed forces, an African, and fled to the island of Crete. Her father, Signore Brabantio, hired Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593) - poet, university wit, playwright, atheist, homosexual, and government agent - to find her and bring her home. Here is a gumshoe case that has it all - scandal, gold, pearls, a magic totem, a doting patriarch, a husband war-hero, a cross-dressed lover, a...

From the newly discovered Jamestown Shakespeare Manuscripts comes a 100% solution to the greatest mystery ever conceived by the mind of man: "Hamlet, Prince of Denmark." The historical Sherlock Homes (not to be confused with Holmes, his fictional namesake) investigates the deaths of Prince Hamlet's father and uncle, the queen mother, Hamlet's school chums, his girlfriend, his girlfriend's father and brother, and of the sulky prince himself. Homes plucks the heart from Hamlet's mystery long before Sigmund Freud attributed the young hero's problems to an unresolved Oedipal Complex. Word Game:...

"The Taming of the Pooch," by Isabella Sforza. Edited for 21st century lovers by Al Dotson: From the Jamestown Shakespeare Manuscripts comes the earliest and quite possibly the greatest paperback girl-takes-charge romance of all time, witty, warm, and scrumptious. Written in 1555 (in Italian) by Isabella Sforza, Lady Porcigliano, and translated by Anne Cook Bacon, the Taming of the Pooch arises from the countess's love affair with the Renaissance humorist, Hortensio Lando; but her story features the courtship of Caterina di Baptista of Padua, who teaches her Petruchio everything that every...