'Trow's mystery offers an eye-opening and seemingly authentic look at sixteenth-century university life in England. Recommend this novel to fans of Phillip Gooden's Nick Revill series, starring a performer in Shakespeare's acting company' - Booklist
First in the thrilling new Kit Marlowe historical mystery series
Cambridge, 1583. About to graduate from Corpus Christi, the young Christopher Marlowe spends...

This enlightening biography examines the life and short reign of England's most controversial king and his relationship to the region he loved. Was Richard III the world's most wicked uncle, or is he merely the victim of historical slander? Forever associated with the murder of his nephews, he was the last king to die in battle, in 1485. His life was as spectacular as the discovery of his bones under a Leicester car park five centuries later-an event...

Kit Marlowe was the bad boy of Elizabethan drama. His 'mighty line' of iambic pentameter transformed the miracle plays of the Middle Ages into modern drama and he paved the way for Shakespeare and a dozen other greats who stole his metre and his ideas. When he died, stabbed through the eye in what appeared to be a tavern brawl in Deptford in May 1593, he was only 29 and many people believed that he had met his just deserts.But Marlowe's death was...