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Excerpt: 'A Fine Madness: A Christopher Marlowe Murder Mystery' by Alan Judd
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Shakespeare & Beyond
Elizabethan playwright Christopher Marlowe may not be as famous as his contemporary William Shakespeare, but his death at age 29 was far more dramatic — an argument over a bill that led to a stabbing, with the killer successfully pleading…
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