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M J Trow is a military historian by training and the author of the long-running Inspector Lestrade and ‘Mad Max’ Maxwell detective series, as well as several non-fiction books, including Who Killed Kit Marlowe? He lives on the Isle of Wight.
Crimson Rose
by M. J. Trow
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9781780104539
- Publisher: Severn House Publishers
- Publication date: 11/01/2013
- Series: A Kit Marlowe Mystery , #5
- Sold by: Barnes & Noble
- Format: eBook
- Pages: 224
- Sales rank: 156,372
- File size: 611 KB
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March, 1587. Christopher Marlowe’s play Tamburlaine, with the incomparable Ned Alleyn in the title role, has opened at the Rose Theatre, and a new era on the London stage is born.
Yet the play is almost shut down on its opening night. For a member of the audience, Eleanor Merchant, lies dead, hit by a musket ball fired from the stage. The man with his finger on the trigger? A bit-part player named Will Shakespeare.
Convinced of Shakespeare’s innocence, Marlowe determines to find out what really happened. When a second body is found floating in the River Thames, it becomes clear that Eleanor Merchant’s death was no accident, and that something deeper and darker is afoot. And why is the Queen’s spymaster, Sir Francis Walsingham, taking a close personal interest in the case?
Fans of Edward Marston’s amusing Elizabethan theater mysteries, featuring Nicholas Bracewell, will enjoy Kit Marlowe’s part in the drama at the Crimson Rose
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09/23/2013Christopher “Kit” Marlowe has achieved fame as a playwright in Trow’s intricately plotted fifth historical featuring the scholar and former secret intelligence officer (after Scorpions’ Nest). Unfortunately, on the opening night of Kit’s play Tamburlaine at London’s Rose theater, landlady Eleanor Marchant is fatally shot in her seat, apparently by a stage gun wielded by bit player Will Shakespeare. When the authorities find that Will is Eleanor’s boarder and that Eleanor and her seductive sister, Constance, attended the play as his guests, he is jailed. At great personal peril, the swashbuckling, witty Kit attempts to prove Will innocent, along the way encountering illegal moneylending, two more murders, sexual intrigue, and lots of unrepentant rogues. Some playful anachronisms notwithstanding, lovers of the period will enjoy the appearances by historical figures, irreverent glimpses of Elizabethan theater, and richly detailed depictions of a corrupt, colorful city. (Nov.)
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Fans of the series and of Edward Marston’s amusing Elizabethan theater mysteries, featuring Nicholas Bracewell, will enjoy Kit Marlowe’s part in the drama at the Crimson Rose.”Booklist on Crimson Rose
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Fans of the series and of Edward Marston’s amusing Elizabethan theater mysteries, featuring Nicholas Bracewell, will enjoy Kit Marlowe’s part in the drama at the Crimson RoseLibrary Journal
11/01/2013Marlowe's friend Will Shakespeare stands accused of murder when an onstage musket shot kills a member of the audience. Kit must get to the root of the problem in his fifth entry (after Scorpions' Nest).