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UNSOLVED MYSTERY, CIRCA 1600 CONSPIRACIES ABOUND IN THIS SWEEPING POETIC VISION OF AN AGE

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From: The Boston Globe
Date: 19900924
Author:Robert Taylor, Special to the Globe

ENTERED FROM THE SUN by George Garrett. Doubleday,

349 page, $19.95

Marlowe was dead, to begin with. It is 1597, nearing the sunset of Elizabeth's reign, and George Garrett's evocative, vividly written novel pivots on the murder of Christopher Marlowe, poet, playwright and sometime spy, four years previous. Was Marlowe the victim of a drunken brawl, or did his death have a sinister dimension of political intrigue?

Rival court factions seek the truth. Two men are pressed into the investigation, neither one knowing who stands behind him, but each conscious of the threat of powerful ...

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