M. J Trow

England in 1920 is a land fit for heroes. So why is one of those heroes found dead in a dingy London hotel? And why does his war record show that he has been missing for three years? The deceased is the fiance of Inspector Lestrade's daughter, and she sets out to find his murderer. As always with Lestrade, one murder has a habit of leading to another. How can a woman killed in an air raid in 1917 be found with a bullet through her head three years...

July, 1868. On receiving a commission from Matthew's cousin Luther to look into the suspicious death of Lafayette Baker, Head of the US National Detective Police, private investigators Matthew Grand and his business partner James Batchelor leave London for Washington DC. They find a country still scarred by the bitter legacy of the Civil War and even in death Lafayette Baker remains one of the most hated men north and south of the Potomac. The newly-created...

A compelling study of crime during the Second World War, this title explores the extraordinary new opportunities for crime created by the war. It recalls infamous wartime murders and murderers and throws light on black marketeers, fifth columnists, deserters and racketeers.

December, 1592. Christopher Marlowe expects his controversial new play, Edward II, to ruffle feathers. What he doesn't expect is it to lead to is sudden, violent death. When multiple murders disrupt rehearsals for the inaugural performance, it becomes clear that someone is determined to prevent this play from being performed - at any cost.

March, 1587. Christopher Marlowe's play Tamburlaine, with the incomparable Ned Alleyn in the title role, has opened at the Rose Theatre, and a new era on the London stage is born. Yet the play is almost shut down on its opening night. For a member of the audience, Eleanor Merchant, lies dead, hit by a musket ball fired from the stage. The man with his finger on the trigger? A bit-part player named Will Shakespeare. Convinced of Shakespeare's innocence,...

July, 1586. Sir Francis Walsingham has despatched Kit Marlowe to the English College in Rheims where he suspects the Catholic traitor Matthew Baxter is hiding, the only one of the Babington plotters to have escaped the net. Infiltrating the College undercover, Marlowe learns that there has been a series of violent deaths. With the help of master codebreaker Thomas Phelippes, can he unearth a murderer, track down a traitor and extract himself from...

As advance guard for the Queen's Progress, Christopher Marlowe tackles murder and intrigue within some of England's grandest stately homes.May, 1591. When Queen Elizabeth decides to embark on a Royal Progress, visiting some of the grandest homes in England, her new spymaster, Sir Robert Cecil, sends Kit Marlowe on ahead, to ensure all goes smoothly. But Marlowe's reconnaissance mission is dogged by disaster: at Farnham Hall, a body is hurled from...

November, 1583. Desperate not to let the Protestant Low Countries fall into the hands of Catholic Spain, the Queen's spymaster, Francis Walsingham, orders Cambridge scholar and novice spy Christopher Marlowe to the Netherlands to assist the beleaguered Dutch leader, William the Silent, whose court is a hotbed of treachery.

May, 1588. With Elizabeth I's court rocked by stories of an imminent invasion and one of his key undercover agents missing, Sir Francis Walsingham despatches Kit Marlowe to the Isle of Wight off the south coast: the first line of defence against the approaching Spanish Armada. Lodging at Carisbrooke Castle with the Isle of Wight's Governor, Sir George Carey, Marlowe finds the Islanders a strange and suspicious lot, with their own peculiar customs...