A Plague of Angels is the fourth book of the Sir Robert Carey Mysteries.
Synopsis
Friday, 1st September 1592
Carey, Dodd, Barnabus and Simon begin the search for Edmund Carey by stopping first at his home. Carey and Dodd talk with Susannah Carey and search the house. Carey finds small amounts of mercury in a chest. After finding Robert Greene at a tavern, they take him to another tavern. Carey and Dodd are called to meet with Henry Carey. They leave Green in the custody of William Shakespeare and join Carey's father, with whom they locate the bodies of the men who attempted the previous day's ambush and of Henry's servant. Carey and Dodd return to the tavern and Greene.
Saturday, 2nd September 1592
Sunday, 3rd September 1592, afternoon
Robert Carey learns about Thomas Heneage's plot to become a close adviser to Queen Elizabeth by trapping and questioning Christopher Marlowe. Heneage goes to the Fleet Prison to interrogate Carey and learns that Henry Dodd has been arrested by mistake. Heneage decides to take Dodd for interrogation, convinced that he knows the whereabouts of either Robert Carey or Edmund Carey. Robert arrives at Fleet Prison and finds his brother with the assistance of Julie Granville.
Continuity
- In conversation, characters refer to events in Error.
Trivia
Historical References