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May, 1588. With Elizabeth I's court rocked by stories of an imminent invasion and one of his key undercover agents missing, Sir Francis Walsingham despatches Kit Marlowe to the Isle of Wight off the south coast: the first line of defence against the approaching Spanish Armada.
Lodging at Carisbrooke Castle with the Isle of Wight's Governor, Sir George Carey, Marlowe finds the Islanders a strange and suspicious lot, with their own peculiar customs and dialect. But is there reason to doubt their loyalty to the Crown? And is the Island really haunted, as some believe? Of one thing Marlowe is certain: it's no ghost behind the series of violent and inexplicable deaths which plague the region. But will he have time to uncover the truth and expose the killer before the might of the Armada descends?|May, 1588. Sir Francis Walsingham despatches undercover agent Christopher Marlowe to the Isle of Wight, the first line of defence against the approaching Spanish Armada. Is there reason to doubt the Islanders' loyalty to the Crown - and can Marlowe unmask a cunning murderer before the might of the Armada descends?
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- ISBN: 9781780105406
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- ISBN: 9781780105406
- File size: 1484 KB
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March 11, 2013
Early in Trow’s workmanlike fourth Elizabethan whodunit featuring Christopher “Kit” Marlowe (after 2012’s Witch Hammer), Sir Frances Walsingham, the queen’s spymaster, presides over the execution of Anthony Babbington, a Catholic gentleman accused of conspiring against the monarch, who’s first hanged until nearly dead, then cut down from the scaffold and dispatched with a billhook. In an effort to root out all of Babbington’s colleagues, Walsingham, who’s obsessed with unearthing threats to the realm, sends Marlowe, his lead intelligencer and future playwright, to Rheims, France—the site of the English College, “the cradle of every Jesuit assassin” found in England in the last 15 years. But the inherent drama of the setup isn’t realized, despite the insertion of several murders for Marlowe to solve. An unexpected distraction is Trow’s inordinate fondness for referring to the college as a nest of scorpions—one reference to the significance of the title would more than suffice, but five is not only excessive but also heavy-handed.
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