Allen & Unwin Tamburlaine Must Die book Literary fiction English Paperback 208 pages

A sumptuous and thrilling historical murder mystery from a prize-winning and bestselling author. One day this city must surely combust London, 1593. A city on edge. Under threat from plague and war, strangers are unwelcome, suspicion is wholesale, severed heads grin from the spikes on Tower Bridge.Playwright, poet and spy, Christopher Marlowe walks the city's mean streets with just three days to find the murderous Tamburlaine, a killer escaped from the pages of his most violent play.Tamburlaine Must Die is the searing adventure of a man who dares to defy both God and the state and whose murder remains a taunting mystery to the present day.