London, 1593. A city on edge. Under threat from plague and war, strangers are unwelcome; suspicion is wholesale, severed heads grin from the spikes on Tower Bridge. Playwright, poet and spy, Christopher Marlowe walks the city's mean streets with just three days to find the murderous Tamburlaine, a killer escaped from the pages of his most violent play. Tamburlaine Must Die is the searing adventure of a man who dares to defy both God and the state and whose murder remains a taunting mystery to the present day.
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(@canongatebooks, 1 September 2009, first published 2004, 160 pages, ebook, borrowed from @GlasgowLib via @OverDriveLibs)
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I've read almost all of Welsh's books and tended to enjoy them. I forgot to check this out along the way. I only know a little about Marlowe after studying Faustus for an Open University course, which I really struggled with and didn't know he was murdered and the case was never solved. You learn something new each day. There is a lot in this short novella. Welsh brings Elizabethan London to vivid, unforgettable life. I got a real sense of place. I liked the use of a first person narrator from Marlowe's POV. I didn't even realise Marlowe was known as both Kit and Christopher. This is intense and well-written.
