Marble Hall Murders By Anthony Horowitz (Harper, 583 pages, $31) The prolific and multi-talented Anthony Horowitz is back with a very readable third novel featuring the full-time professional editor and part-time amateur sleuth Susan Ryeland and the legendary fictional detective…

Ben Jonson was a younger contemporary of Shakespeare. He was a playwright and poet of the highest caliber. The distance of the four centuries blurs the sharp particulars of the trials all must go through to earn their stripes, especially…