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By Phillip DePoy

In 1583, the nineteen-year-old Christopher Marlowe---with a name as a brawler, a womanizer, a genius, and a social upstart at Cambridge University---is visited through a guy representing Marlowe's benefactors. There are rumors of a turning out to be plot opposed to her majesty Queen Elizabeth I, and the Queen's spymaster, Sir Francis Walsingham, has charged younger Marlowe with monitoring down the reality. the trail to that fact turns out to run via an enigmatic prisoner held in entire seclusion in a seriously guarded dungeon in Malta. Marlowe needs to use each piece of his wits, his talents, and his bold to solve one of many maximum mysteries in historical past and aid discover and resolve scheme of assassination and invasion, one regarding the govt of Spain, excessive rating English nobles, or even Pope himself.

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