Spenser Berg, world renowned Shakespearean scholar and Melville University's most celebrated professor, announces that he has definitive proof that William Shakespeare didn't write the works attributed to him. Berg claims to have found the real author's identity in the Bard's writing table, which he discovered on a recent field trip. He then announces that he plans to donate the priceless artifact to the university's Special Collections department under the care of its head archivist, Jordan Daye. Jordan, who hardly knew the professor, is surprised and thrilled¿until she arrives at work the next morning to find Berg's severed head outside her window and Shakespeare's table nowhere to be found. Now a prime suspect in the professor's murder, Jordan must solve two daunting mysteries to clear her name. Who killed Spenser Berg? And who really wrote the works of William Shakespeare?