When Ariadne Caulfield and Judith Sheridan arrive home from the theater after a late summer "gully-washer, " they find Ariadne's home in disarray, the porch light out and the side door open. Entering gingerly, their fears are confirmed but even worse, a man's body lies in a pool of blood beside the fireplace, his head bashed by a dripping poker, most of Ariadne's books from her library shelves strewn around the room and body. Thus starts another tale of The Caulfield, Sheridan Mystery Series, Shakespeare's Secrets.Who is responsible and what is the connection to Ariadne, a professor in the history department at Rutherford College in Coowahchobee, Florida? Follow another exciting and absorbing mystery from Bonnie Hoover Braendlin and see if you can figure out the trail leading to the perpetrator, all along enjoying the perspective of imaginative and intelligent women who link the clues in Shakespeare's Secrets.