Walshingham is cleaning up threats to the queen. Fourteen men have gone
to the scaffold, but one has eluded him. He wants Kit Marlowe to go
after the fifteenth. It would mean travelling to France.
Marlowe goes under cover at the English College in Rheims, a place known
as a nest of scorpions. There he learns that a young man had recently
died, but the manner of his death has been covered up. Going into the
catacombs he discovers the body of the victim and also discovers that he
had been hung. Marlowe also learns that one of the fathers had died
recently, too. A prostitute he has befriended tells him that in this
case the victim had been stabbed to death in his bed. How does she know
that? Her friend had been sleeping with him at the time.
Through Walshingham’s local agent, Marlowe has to go in search of a
document that is in code. Once he has it, Walshingham’s man who
deciphers it will be there to do just that. However, not long after his
arrival, he is stabbed, and another man has been killed at the English
College.
Time is running out for Marlowe to catch the man he has been sent to
get. Is he also the murderer? How can he find the killer and complete
Walshingham’s task in time?
Author M. J. Trow has some action remaining for Marlowe in this
Elizabethan thriller before he can solve the murders and get back to
London. All-in-all, a good quick read.
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