A Tip for the Hangman: A Novel

by Allison Epstein

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An Elizabethan espionage thriller in which playwright Christopher Marlowe spies on Mary, Queen of Scots while navigating the perils of politics, theater, romance—and murder.

England, 1585. In Kit Marlowe's last year at Cambridge, he is approached by Queen Elizabeth's spymaster offering an unorthodox career opportunity: going undercover to intercept a Catholic plot to put Mary, Queen of Scots on Elizabeth's throne. Spying on Queen Mary turns out to be more than Kit bargained for, but his salary allows him to mount his first play, and over the following years he becomes the toast of London's raucous theater...Read more
  • ISBN10 0385546718
  • ISBN13 9780385546713
  • Publish Date 9 February 2021 (first published 1 February 2021)
  • Publish Status Remaindered
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher Random House USA Inc
  • Imprint Doubleday & Co Inc.