Traces Remain Essays and Explorations

<p>History leaves traces of the people - Byron, Shakespeare, Rimbaud, Leonardo - living through it, in portraits, documents and books. In <i>Traces Remain</i>, Charles Nicholl, the acclaimed author of <i>The Reckoning</i>, <i>The Lodger: Shakespeare on Silver Street</i> and <i>Leonardo da Vinci: The Flights of the Mind</i>, transforms these glimpses through time into comic and poignant vignettes, and curious, intriguing puzzles. <br><br>From a mysterious painting found in a Hereford house to the death of an alchemist, and from a new Jack the Ripper suspect to a gold hunt in El Dorado, Nicholl''s twenty-five fascinating essays take in two murders, three disappearances and a missing Shakespeare play to show the marvel and tenacity of these wonderful historical traces. <br><br>''Our finest literary and historical detective ... Deliciously readable'' <i>Financial Times<br><br></i>''Charles Nicholl confirms his role as literature''s historic Holmes ... thoroughly captivating'' <i>Scotsman</