Silent Court

Kit Marlowe is making his way in the world, reporting to spymaster Walsingham on the machinations of the Throckmorton Plot. But Walsingham has other plans for his newest recruit and the Cambridge scholar finds himself on the high seas to protect England’s ally against Spain, William of Nassau, known as the Silent.

Going undercover, Kit travels with a small group of ‘Egyptians’, beggars with a murky reputation, whose stay at the house of the queen’s magus, John Dee, results in murder. Can Kit, mercurial, dazzling, unpredictable, stay one step ahead of the assassin who has William in his sights? And can he find the murderer who is clearly in their ranks?

In the cloisters of Cambridge, the alleyways of Delft and on the rolling decks of the ships of the Sea Beggars, Kit has to use all the wit and guile at his disposal to stay ahead of Walsingham’s great game.

In Dark Entry, the first in the Marlowe series, Cambridge was brought to life in all its Tudor glory. In Silent Court, the cold winter of the Fens and the icy streets of Delft chill to the marrow as the crimes, and lives, unravel.

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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