fraNCIS bacon: The Shirt

by Anna Castle

A man lies in an empty house with a damaged face, wearing only a richly embroidered shirt. Francis Bacon and his law students must identify him from the shirt and use that single clue to find the killer.

29 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 4, 2019

About the author

Anna Castle writes the Francis Bacon mysteries and the Professor & Mrs. Moriarty mysteries. She has earned a series of degrees -- BA in the Classics, MS in Computer Science, and a Ph.D in Linguistics -- and has had a corresponding series of careers -- waitressing, software engineering, grammar-writing, assistant professor, and archivist. Writing fiction combines her lifelong love of stories and learning. She physically resides in Austin, Texas and mentally counts herself a queen of infinite space.

Reviews

[patricia · Rating 5 out of 5]

Tom and Sir Francis Bacon and his fellow students are asked to look into a dead man in a house that is being watched over by the person requesting they look into it. The dead man is only wearing a shirt with some excellent needlework. So begins a search for the murderer. The Shirt is an Anna Castle short story.

[Susan · Rating 4 out of 5]

1587, and Trotter the executor of the will of Lady Thursby has found a body in her old home. He calls on Francis Bacon for help. The only evidence to the identity of the body and the events that preceded his death is the shirt he is wearing.
An enjoyable and well-written short mystery