Shakespeare
for Squirrels: A Novel
by Christopher Moore
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Shakespeare meets Dashiell
Hammett in this wildly entertaining murder mystery from New York Times
bestselling author Christopher Moore—an uproarious, hardboiled take on the
Bard’s most performed play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, featuring Pocket, the
hero of Fool and The Serpent of Venice, along with his sidekick, Drool, and pet
monkey, Jeff.
Set adrift by his pirate crew,
Pocket of Dog Snogging—last seen in The Serpent of Venice—washes up on the
sun-bleached shores of Greece, where he hopes to dazzle the Duke with his
comedic brilliance and become his trusted fool.
But the island is in turmoil.
Egeus, the Duke’s minister, is furious that his daughter Hermia is determined
to marry Demetrius, instead of Lysander, the man he has chosen for her. The
Duke decrees that if, by the time of the wedding, Hermia still refuses to marry
Lysander, she shall be executed . . . or consigned to a nunnery. Pocket, being Pocket,
cannot help but point out that this decree is complete bollocks, and that the
Duke is an egregious weasel for having even suggested it. Irritated by the
fool’s impudence, the Duke orders his death. With the Duke’s guards in pursuit,
Pocket makes a daring escape.
He soon stumbles into the
wooded realm of the fairy king Oberon, who, as luck would have it, IS short a
fool. His jester Robin Goodfellow—the mischievous sprite better known as
Puck—was found dead. Murdered. Oberon makes Pocket an offer he can’t refuse: he
will make Pocket his fool and have his death sentence lifted if Pocket finds
out who killed Robin Goodfellow. But as anyone who is even vaguely aware of the
Bard’s most performed play ever will know, nearly every character has a motive
for wanting the mischievous sprite dead.
With too many suspects and too
little time, Pocket must work his own kind of magic to find the truth, save his
neck, and ensure that all ends well.
A rollicking tale of love,
magic, madness, and murder, Shakespeare for Squirrels is a Midsummer Night’s
noir—a wicked and brilliantly funny good time conjured by the singular
imagination of Christopher Moore
Product
details
Hardcover : 288 pages
Publisher : William Morrow
(May 12, 2020)
Language : English
ISBN-10 : 0062434020
ISBN-13 : 978-0062434029
Product Dimensions : 6 x 1 x 9 inches
