A Tip For the Hangman by Allison Epstein

 

A Tip For the Hangman by Allison Epstein – 374 p.

 Elizabethan poet, playwright and all-around rake Christopher Marlowe is compelled into service by Elizabeth I’s spy network. The more effort he puts into successfully completing his assignments so that he can go back to his writing and his lover, the more entrapped he becomes in the duplicitous, man-eat-man web of espionage. Debut novelist Epstein brings the dangerous world of Renaissance politics to life and weaves an exciting story from the known facts of Marlowe’s short life. Even Will Shakespeare makes a couple of cameos.