Publication: Simon and Schuster, 1981, New York
First edition. Fine in lightly rubbed dust jacket. A CIA cryptographer, Charlie Heller, searches and eventually finds the cryptogram in Shakespeare's works that reveals the true author; the head of Czech intelligence author of a monograph that portrays Francis Bacon as the actual writer of Shakespeare's works; and a KGB colonel in Prague with a Russian degree in Elizabethan literature whose thesis made the case that Edward de Vere was the true writer of certain plays of William Shakespeare; all are entwined in this novel or revenge and intrigue. Fast-paced action. Basis for the movie of the same name that starred John Savage and Christopher Plummer.
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