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1) Witch hammer
Author
Series
Kit Marlowe mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Crème de la Crime
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Desperate to pursue his chosen career as a professional playwright, the young Christopher Marlowe abandons his Cambridge studies to join Lord Strange's men, a group of traveling players. En route to perform at Oxford, the players are rehearsing among the famous Rollright Stones on the Warwickshire border when they're rudely interrupted by the discovery of the corpse of actor-manager Ned Sledd, which some of the players believe to be an act of witchcraft....
Author
Series
Kit Marlowe mysteries volume 11
Publisher
Crème de la Crime
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"December, 1592. England is entering dangerous waters as thoughts turn to the question of the ageing Queen Elizabeth's successor. Christopher Marlowe meanwhile is leading a troupe of the Lord Chamberlain's Men on tour with a controversial new play. Marlowe expects his latest play, Edward II, to ruffle feathers. What he doesn't expect is it to lead to is sudden, violent death. The morning the tour is due to begin, the newest member of the cast is found...
Author
Series
Kit Marlowe mysteries volume 9
Publisher
Crème de la Crime
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
1591. The Queen is embarking on a Royal Progress, visiting some of the grandest homes in England, and Kit Marlowe has been sent on ahead to ensure all goes smoothly. When his reconnaissance mission is derailed by a series of alarming and tragic incidents, Marlowe suspects there's a conspiracy to sabotage the Progress. Who is pulling the strings - and why?
4) Secret world
Author
Series
Kit Marlowe mysteries volume 7
Publisher
Crème de la Crime
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
June, 1589. Now a feted poet and playwright, Kit Marlowe is visiting his family in Canterbury. But it's not the happy homecoming he had hoped for. A long-standing family friend has been found dead in her bed, killed by several blows to the head. Convinced that the wrong person has been found guilty of the crime, Marlowe determines to uncover the truth.
5) Black death
Author
Series
Kit Marlowe mysteries volume 10
Publisher
Crème de la Crime
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"September, 1592. 'Kit, I know we have never been friends, but you are the only man in London to whom I can write. Someone is trying to kill me' ... Christopher Marlowe had never liked Robert Greene when he was alive. But when the former Cambridge scholar is found dead in a cheap London boarding house, shortly after sending Kit a desperate letter, Marlowe feels duty bound to find out who killed him - and why. What secrets did Robert Greene take with...
6) Crimson rose
Author
Series
Kit Marlowe mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Crème de la Crime
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
When Christopher Marlowe's play debut is marred by the death of an audience member by a shot fired from the stage by a bit-part player named William Shakespeare, he sets out to determine what really happened and prove the actor's innocence.
Author
Series
Kit Marlowe mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Crème de la Crime
Pub. Date
©2012
Language
English
Description
October, 1586. Sir Francis Walsingham has despatched Kit Marlowe to the English College in Rheims where he suspects the Catholic traitor Matthew Baxter is hiding, the only one of the Babington plotters to have escaped. Infiltrating the College undercover, Marlowe learns that the community has been rocked by a series of unexplained and violent deaths. With the help of master codebreaker Thomas Phelippes, can Christopher Marlowe unearth a murderer,...
8) Silent court
Author
Series
Kit Marlowe mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Crème de la Crime
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"November, 1583. Desperate not to let the Netherlands fall into the hands of Catholic Spain, the Queen's spymaster orders Cambridge scholar and novice spy Christopher Marlowe to go there to assist its beleaguered leader, William the Silent. However, travelling in disguise as part of a troupe of Egyptian players, Marlowe encounters trouble even before he leaves England. When the players make a detour to perform at the home of Dr John Dee, one of their...
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