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“This book is set in a period of history that has been very well worked. It’s about the murder of Christopher Marlowe. William Shakespeare is one of his main characters, and with Marlowe’s sister the become a sort of detective duo, because they are not convinced by the official explanation for why Marlowe was stabbed in the eye in Deptford. There’s a on-off romance between them as well. What’s entertaining about this one is that he doesn’t attempt in any way to make it sound historical, although he’s clearly done the background research. It’s all written in very contemporary dialogue, and they are presented as characters that we might recognise, that you might run into in the pub. The comedy is found in that—how these people become heroes in a comic detective fiction.” Read more...
Stephanie Merritt, Journalist
