#TopTenTuesday The Play’s The Thing – Books Set in Theatres #TuesdayBookBlog

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This week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic is Books I’d Like to Re-Read. Re-reading books is something I almost never do so I’ve come up with my own topic – Books Set in Theatres. Links from the title will take you to my review or the book description on Goodreads.

1. Traitor’s Legacy by S. J. Parris – the body of a young heiress is found on the site of a theatre in Elizabethan London but what was the motive for her murder?
2. Shadowplay by Joseph O’Connor – the Lyceum theatre in 1878 is the setting for a love triangle involving theatre manager Bram Stoker, actor and impresario Sir Henry Irving, and actress Ellen Terry
3. The Wardrobe Mistress by Patrick McGrath – Charlie Grice, one of the great stage actors of the day, dies suddenly. His widow Joan, the wardrobe mistress, is grief-stricken but begins to realise Charlie was a man of many secrets
4. Miss Treadway and the Field of Stars by Miranda Emmerson – Anna Treadway, a young dresser at the Galaxy Theatre, sets out to investigate the disappearance of actress Iolanthe Green after a performance one evening
5. Murder at the Theatre by Greg Mosse – as opening night of a new play approaches, a body is found concealed behind the scenes in the theatre
6. The Improbable Adventures of Miss Emily Soldene by Helen Batten – the true story of a woman who became a leading lady of the London stage and an impresario with her own opera company
7. Glorious Exploits by Ferdia Lennon – in 5th century BC Syracuse, two unemployed potters come up with the crazy notion of staging Euripides’ play Medea in a quarry using Athenian prisoners as cast
8. Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters – the fortunes of Whitstable oyster girl Nan King are changed forever when she falls in love with cross-dressing music-hall singer Kitty Butler
9. Theatre by W. Somerset Maugham – Julia Lambert is the greatest actress in England but off stage she’s bored with her handsome husband and is flattered by the attentions of a shy and eager young fan
10. Curtain Call by Anthony Quinn – on a sultry afternoon in the summer of 1936, a West End actress accidentally interrupts an attempted murder in a London hotel room