Christopher Marlowe plays the role of sleuth to discover who killed the queen's spymaster in this ';bawdy, witty... historically informed' Elizabethan mystery (Kirkus Reviews). April, 1590. When the queen's spymaster, Sir Francis Walsingham, dies of a stroke, the sudden event leaves a dangerous power vacuum in her majesty's court. Walsingham's former right-hand man, Nicholas Faunt, believes he wa...