He is not satisfied that this particular player is the one responsible and he has come for the last visit, hoping to convince the inmate to tell him the whole truth of the tragedy that befell the seven in the last year of their studies.Īnd so begins the telling, by Oliver Marks, of the lives of seven young people finishing the training that would, hopefully, lead them into successful lives and careers as Shakespearean stars. The visitor is the policeman who investigated the death of one of the others. The inmate had been one of seven fourth year actors-the only seven left after four years of culling lesser talented would be Shakespearean performers. The inmate, 31 years old, has served the ten years for having murdered a fellow classmate at Dellecher Classical Conservatory, a small but prestigious school devoted to the training of thespians, dancers, artists and writers. A retired policeman has come to visit an inmate, soon to be paroled, as he has for ten years, every two weeks. The prologue takes place in the visitors' room of a jail in Illinois. Could not put this book down, literally inhaled it in one and a half days! Only took time out when it was impossible to stay awake.
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