Description: Set in 1597, George Garrett's evocative novel pivots on the murder of Christopher Marlowe. Marlowe, the celebrated poet and playwright, has been dead for four years when a couple of engaging sleuths begin to follow the twisted trail that led to his death. Two men, Hunnyman, the quicksilver actor of many roles and acquaintance of Marlowe, and Barfoot, a volatile soldier/spy, are hired by two conflicting political factions to get to the bottom of Marlowe's mysterious murder. Was the famous playwright the victim of a drunken brawl or did his death have a sinister dimension of political intrigue? Every page of the book is haunted as this consuming investigation plays itself out.

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