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From: The Press
Date: 20030215
Author:MOORE, Christopher

THE RECKONING: THE MURDER OF CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE by Charles Nicholl. Vintage, 568pp, $27.95

Christopher Marlowe's premature death in a squalid tavern brawl in 1593 is the stuff of legend -- which is precisely why Nicholl's book is so valuable and fascinating. In this revised edition of his 1992 book, Nicholl blows away history's cobwebs to provide the 21st- century reader with a remarkable academic thriller, a brilliant reconstruction of an age and the personalities which inhabited it. Ferociously eloquent, tightly researched, The Reckoning escorts us through history's shadowy ante-chambers ...

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