Christopher Marlowe’s Secret Life
During the sixteenth century, "intelligencer" was the term for spy. Leslie Silbert's debut thriller, The Intelligencer, contrasts the world of espionage in the sixteenth century and present day. Silbert can definitely relate to her main character Kate Morgan, being a Renaissance scholar and former private investigator herself.
In 1593, Christopher Marlowe, Shakespeare's rival playwright, takes on what will be his last assignment with Queen Elizabeth's secret service. Within three weeks of accepting this assignment, Marlowe will be murdered, a murder that still remains unsolved.
Present day Renaissance scholar turned private eye, Kate Morgan, is sent to London'to look into the attempted burglary of a home containing a collection of papers written in code. As Kate breaks the cipher, she discovers that the papers were written by Marlowe, detailing his work as an intelligencer. Could the papers finally reveal clues concerning the mysterious death of Marlowe? As Kate investigates the burglary, focusing on an art dealer who may not be what he seems, bodies begin to pile up. Kate must unravel the mystery behind Marlowe's death and why someone, centuries later, would still want it kept secret at all costs.
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