Another fun outing with the group from St. Mary's. =) ( )

It is a holiday for historians (never to be called time travelers). Everybody in the pod for a performance of Hamlet at the Globe starring Richard Burbage, with the part of the ghost played by the author. Who would have guessed there would be a riot and a fire?
It is too bad there is not much of a market for short stories. Taylor’s humor works well in a hit-quick form. Here, for example, is Max introducing her baby to the History Department: “All right, people. This is a baby. A small human. His name is Matthew and he is not to be floated across the lake in a Moses basket just to see if it could have happened. Nor is he to be stuffed into a warming pan and smuggled into someone’s bed. He is not to be dangled off a balcony and presented to the Welsh people as a non-English-speaking Prince of Wales.” She goes on to explain to the Research Department that the baby may not be plopped down as a paperweight, employed to block inconvenient drafts, or used as ballast. It is the St. Mary’s version of a please-don’t-eat-the-daisies speech, and if that reference is too old for you, look up Jean Kerr on Wikipedia or Doris Day on IMDB.
Let’s give this one four Dramatis Thingummies. ( )

I love the St. Mary's books & novellas. So, so fun and this one was no exception. ( )

I really like this series. It combines hilarity with some serious moments. This is just a snippet of the fun and no serious moment in sight. ( )

St Mary's is off to spend a long overdue day out in Elizabethan London, to watch a performance of Hamlet at the Globe theatre, with Shakespeare himself appearing as the Ghost. However, as this is St Mary's, everything that can go wrong does; Dr Bairstow is not amused. On the plus side, at least the recorders' batteries didn't fail.

While there is a certain predictability to the novels and short stories – not for nothing does the cover of each book proclaim the team of St Mary's to be disaster magnets – it's always great fun to discover the details, which are entirely unpredictable. And you pick up a snippet or two of history too – what's not to love? ( )