num_pages: 160
description: 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.
language: English
title: Tamburlaine Must Die
titlecomplete: Tamburlaine Must Die
characters: Thomas Kyd, Walter Raleigh, Thomas Walsingham, Elizabeth I of England, Christopher Marlowe, Richard Baines, Elizabeth Raleigh
genres: Historical, Crime, Novels, Thriller, LGBT, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Novella, Mystery, British Literature
ratings_count: 771
places: London, England
publisher: Canongate