The Reckoning: The Murder of Christopher Marlowe
#1222 of 3,809 books · #438 in Biography & Memoir
Won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography (1992).
In 1593 the brilliant but controversial young playwright Christopher Marlowe was stabbed to death in a Deptford lodging house. The circumstances were shady. Nicholls penetrates four centuries of obscurity to reveal a complex story of entrapment and betrayal. The Reckoning won the Crime Writer's Gold Dagger Award for a nonfiction thriller.
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- ISBN-13
- 9780226580241
- Genre
- Topics
- Christopher MarloweElizabethan espionageMurder investigation
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