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Francis Bacon is incurred with investigating the murder of any fellow barrister at Gray's Inn. He recruits his unwanted protégé Thomas Clarady to do the tiresome legwork. The boy of any privateer, Clarady can do anything to climb the Elizabethan sociable ladder. Bacon's powerful uncle, Lord Burghley, suspects Catholic conspirators of the crime, but other motives quickly emerge. Rival barristers contend for the murdered man's legal honors and prosperous clients. Highly-placed courtiers are implicated as the exploration extends to from Whitehall to the London roads. Bacon will the thinking; Clarady will the fencing. Everyone has something up his pinked and cushioned sleeve. Even the great Francis Bacon reaches a reduction - and in danger - until he sees through the disguises of the season of Misrule.