Beginning With A Bash by Alice Tilton

Leonidas Witherall (who just happens to be a look-alike for William Shakespeare), down-on-his-luck former schoolmaster, now building janitor, gets involved when his former pupil Martin Jones is arrested for the murder of his former boss, Professor North. Witherall and Dot, a pretty young red-head of Jones’ acquaintance, set off tracking down clues to the murderer's …