About this item
In 1583, young Christopher Marlowe -- student, brawler, rakehell, and would-be playwright -- has had a dreadful evening. The first performance of his play in the corner of a very disreputable Cambridge bar is a humiliating flop, and then he's attacked on the streets while in the company of Thomas Kyd. So when Francis Walsingham, Queen Elizabeth's spymaster, sends for him, Marlowe is only too happy to go. The assignment is go to Holland, where England's ally, William the Silent, is the target of a Spanish assassination plot -- a plot that is only the first step in the latest attempt to usurp the throne of England.
About the Author
Edgar Award winning author Phillip DePoy began his work as a writer in 1965 with the Actors and Writers Workshop. Ten years later he had become a published poet and acquired a Master's degree in performance art. Soon thereafter he became a writer in residence for the Georgia Council for the Arts and a nationally reviewed performance artist. In the 1980s he was the composer in residence for the Academy Theatre. In the 1990s he was the Artistic Director of Theatrical Outfit, a professional, Equity theatre. Since then he has served as the director of several university theatre programs. Fiction publications include Flap Tucker mysteries published at Dell (one was a Shamus finalist) , seven Fever Devilin novels, a stand-alone called THE KING JAMES CONSPIRACY, and the Christopher Marlowe series from St. Martin's. Non-fiction books include THE TAO AND THE BARD from the Arcade house. There have also been forty-two productions of plays he's written, including the Edgar Award winning EASY, best mystery play of 2002. Most recent theatrical achievements include NICK'S FLAMNGO GRILL at the Alliance Theatre and the twentieth national production of APPALACHIAN CHRISTMAS HOMECOMING. His NEW SERIES features Foggy Moscowitz, a Jewish car thief from Brooklyn working for Child Protective Services in 1970s Florida.
