Join the North Providence Mystery Book Club on Tuesday February
4, 2020. We will be discussing Thirteenth Night by Alan Gordon. This book
is the first in the Fool’s Guild series, and uses Shakespeare’s Twelfth
Night as the basis for the story.
The description from the book jacket is “In late December
1200 A.D a merchant arrives at a tavern near the Guildhall of the Fool’s Guild
with a message for one of the jesters. The message is brief: “Orsino is dead.”
Fifteen years before, the jester, using the name of Feste, secretly interceded
on the Guild’s behalf in a dynastic crisis in the Duchy of Orsino, thus
spoiling the plans of Saladin’s agent, Malvolio. These events, recorded
centuries later somewhat differently in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, led to Malvolio’s humiliation and his oath of
revenge. Now, with the unexpected death of the Duke of Orsino, Feste suspects
murder and sees the hand of Malvolio behind it.
With the backing of the Guild, Feste secretly returns to
Orsino disguised as a merchant, to find out what really happened to the Duke
and ferret out Malvolio. But, fifteen years is a long time and Malvolio could
be disguised as anyone. Only one thing is certain: Feste must uncover and foil
the plot before he is found out by Malvolio, who has been planning his revenge
for a very long time.”
We will be meeting in the Second Floor Meeting Room at 7:00
pm.
