''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

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First in the thrilling new Kit Marlowe historical mystery series

Cambridge, 1583. About to graduate from Corpus Christi, the young Christopher Marlowe spends his days studying and his nights carousing with old friends. But when one of them is discovered lying dead in his King''s College room, mouth open in a silent scream, Marlowe refuses to accept the official verdict of suicide. Calling on the help of his mentor, Sir Roger Manwood, Justice of the Peace, and the queen''s magus, Dr John Dee, a poison expert, Marlowe sets out to prove that his friend was murdered.