06/23/2014
In Trow’s so-so sixth Tudor mystery featuring playwright Christopher “Kit” Marlowe (after 2013’s Crimson Rose), Francis Walsingham, Elizabeth’s legendary spymaster, dispatches Kit to the Isle of Wight in search of missing spy Harry Hasler, whose last communiqué made a vague reference to danger. Posing as a writer looking for inspiration, Kit arrives on Wight determined to learn whether there’s any link between Hasler’s disappearance and the ongoing threat to England from Spain. Kit is present at the discovery of a strangled corpse, which, to his relief, is not Hasler but rather a farmer, Walter Hunnybun. Hunnybun isn’t the last murder victim the agent encounters while seeking his quarry, but the whodunit isn’t Trow’s best. The tongue-in-cheek tone, especially evident toward the end, undercuts any attempt at gritty realism, making this less engaging than similarly themed historical mysteries. (Aug.)
May, 1588. With Elizabeth I's court rocked by stories of an imminent invasion and one of his key undercover agents missing, Sir Francis Walsingham despatches Kit Marlowe to the Isle of Wight: the first line of defence against the approaching Spanish Armada. Marlowe finds the Islanders a strange and suspicious lot, with their own peculiar customs and dialect. But is there reason to doubt their loyalty to the Crown? And is the Island really haunted, as some believe? Of one thing Marlowe is certain: it's no ghost behind the series of violent and inexplicable deaths which plague the region. But will he have time to expose the killer before the Armada descends?
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Traitor's Storm
May, 1588. With Elizabeth I's court rocked by stories of an imminent invasion and one of his key undercover agents missing, Sir Francis Walsingham despatches Kit Marlowe to the Isle of Wight: the first line of defence against the approaching Spanish Armada. Marlowe finds the Islanders a strange and suspicious lot, with their own peculiar customs and dialect. But is there reason to doubt their loyalty to the Crown? And is the Island really haunted, as some believe? Of one thing Marlowe is certain: it's no ghost behind the series of violent and inexplicable deaths which plague the region. But will he have time to expose the killer before the Armada descends?
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BN ID: | 2940173846730 |
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Publisher: | Soundings, Limited |
Publication date: | 09/01/2018 |
Series: | Kit Marlowe , #6 |
Edition description: | Unabridged |
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