Scorpions’ Nest

The year is 1586 – the year of the Babington plot on the life of Elizabeth – and  Kit Marlowe is feeling, as usual, a little of the wanderlust that has driven him these last few years. Despite his best efforts, he has been drawn more closely into the dark world of Francis Walsingham and Nicholas Faunt and has agreed to delve into the dubious goings on at the English School in Douai. The place is a hot bed of intrigue, a centre from which disgruntled English Jesuits are sent to win England back to Rome by any means.

As might almost be expected in the closed world of the English School, feelings run high. Many of the scholars here are celibate by decree rather than by nature and the girls of the town are able to make quite a nice living from these little human frailties. But unfortunately for some in the English School, love is not just a roll in the hay, it goes much deeper and jealousies emerge which threaten to burst the place apart.

People are dying, it appears accidentally, but it doesn’t take a genius to work out that in such a small place there should be only very few accidents a year, let alone in a month or so and, let’s face it, Christopher Marlowe is a genius! The deaths seem so random that he might easily be next and self-preservation is one of Marlowe’s main aims in life – he must find the murderer, but not just for the sake of his own skin. Can he extract himself from this scorpions’ nest without being fatally stung?

Book Author

M .J.Trow bills himself in many of his books as the only Welshman who cannot sing or play rugby. A military historian by training, graduating from King’s College, London and Cambridge, he has spent most years of his life at the chalk face of comprehensive schools which has given him the inspiration for his latest fictional detective Peter ‘Mad Max’ Maxwell. The first detective series appeared in 1985 in the form of Inspector Lestrade, late of the Conan Doyle canon and after sixteen hilarious, bloody and intriguing outings, the world’s second greatest detective hung ...
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