Out on Any Limb

By John Myers Myers

$2.50

GENTLEMEN, scholars, rovers, adventurers, rogues, thieves, racketeers, cutthroats (sometimes some of these in combination), ladies, doxies, manors, taverns, lyrics, ballads, gore, encounters of sharp wit, lots of action, plenty of sack and ale — such are the ingredients that have gone into this spicy Elizabethan stew of Mr. Myers’s making, all very cheery and authentic-seeming, just the sort of thing you’d expect of the age that produced Raleigh and Marlowe, Drake and Shakespeare. One-eyed Sir Chidiok Sangrel and Sir Roger Stukely, their gentlemen servitors, Ingram (the hero) and Giles, and the shrewd vagrant thief Yare, are a valiant if ruffianly crew in pursuit of Lord Ralph Trammell’s gang, responsible for the murder of Lord Dorking. An exhilarating novel — and if Englishmen of Queen Bess’s day did not live like this, they surely should have. A remarkable piece of re-creation, full of gusto and real fun. J. C.