Bruce Hutchison

A gripping, historical fiction murder mystery. In the Siberian winter of 1921, two tons of Tsarist' gold secretly travel by rail to Alexander Kolchak, Supreme Commander of the White Army in Siberia fighting the Bolshevik Communist Reds. The gold never arrived. For the next hundred years that vast treasure was thought to have been sledded out onto frozen Lake Baikal sink in the spring melt. When Marta Russco, a Russian reporter and friend of Clayton Lovell Stone's, is brutally murdered in Siberia, Stone weaves through a tightening web of political corruption, contract murder, and Putin's secret love life in search of the martyred Tsar's lost gold. But while Stone follows the trail of lost gold, others after that gold seek to silence Stone in the frozen depths of Lake Baikal. Each Clayton Lovel Stone action-adventure mystery thriller series takes you on a thrilling ride across a series of historical events to unravel and solve historical mysteries in a present-day, action, adventure, thriller series.

A historical love story set in16th century England that changed that changed the course of history and nearly topple a thrown. The story of the lover and the love child that had to be denied to save the crown. What if William Shakespeare didn't write any of the plays or sonnets attributed to him? What if he couldn't? What if he was illiterate? And if William Shakespeare didn't write them, who did, and why is Shakespeare's name attached to plays he didn't write? The Queen and the Playwright is the gripping tale, told in narrative fiction, of a brilliant, political figure, fourteenth in line for throne of England, whose affair and clandestine child by the "virgin queen," Elizabeth I, threw the succession into jeopardy and opened England to the imminent threat of invasion. The father of that secret child and author of the "Shakespeare" plays was forced to shed his name, his reputation, and any connection he had with the crown, replaced by William Shakespeare, an illiterate in need of money. This is the true story of how William Shakespeare went down in history as the most famous playwright the world has ever known, while the actual author, away from court and out of power, died in excruciating pain, reworking plays he knew would never be published under his own name.

How can a man with few travels, little education, and no connection to the opulent courts and refined customs of nobility write the most breathtakingly literate plays in the English language? Follow the author on a captivating journey as he scours graveyards, catacombs, ancient castles, and Westminster archives, searching for clues and hidden truths that could forever alter our understanding of the Shakespeare authorship. The author's search raises profound questions of mistaken identity, cover-up, and deliberate shenanigans, past and present, to keep the playwright's identity hidden and buried. Is this the Shakespeare authorship question the greatest literary conspiracy in history? Follow the trail of the evidence and decide for yourself.