![]() ![]() Still, if you’d like more of Marlowe’s fictional adventures after this, check those out! ![]() This features the same historical main character as Elizabeth Bear’s Promethean Age books Ink and Steel and others, but stands alone and is straight-up historical fiction rather than historical fantasy as those are. Throw in a mysterious Greek book, a couple of murder attempts, and an archbishop, and you have a great mystery/coming of age tale. Meanwhile, Kit is experiencing a secret first love with another boy and negotiating his relationships with his mother and younger sisters, all excellently characterized. ![]() Unfortunately, this puts both Kit and Watson in grave danger. Oh, and someone’s just murdered the older scholar friend who gave him a window into a new world.Įnter Tom Watson (a real historical figure, though used fictitiously) who is also trying to solve the murder. This is a really fun murder mystery/adventure set in 16th-century Canterbury as a 15 year old Christopher Marlowe, the future playwright, struggles to build a future beyond what his abusive father (the cobbler of the title) envisions for him. ![]()
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