Interred With Their Bones.

Interred With Their Bones by Jennifer Lee Carrell. New York: Dutton, 2007; London: Little, Brown, 2008. Chasing Shakespeares by Sarah Smith. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003.

Two first-rate suspense novels are plunging hundreds of thousands of readers into the Shakespeare authorship controversy and the case for the earl of Oxford as the true author.

Blend the gripping suspense and plot twists of The Da Vinci Code with the bold embrace of the Shakespeare authorship issue and the case for Oxford and you have the best-selling novel Interred With Their Bones by Jennifer Lee Carrell, a Harvard Ph.D. who lectured there on Shakespeare.

Merge a literary detective story like A. S. Byatt's Possession with the evidence for Oxford as the true author and you have the best-selling novel Chasing Shakespeares by Sarah Smith, also a Harvard Ph.D. in English literature.

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