Title: Silent court
Description: HISTORICAL MYSTERIES. November, 1583. Desperate not to let the Netherlands fall into the hands of Catholic Spain, the Queen's spymaster orders Cambridge scholar and novice spy Christopher Marlowe to go there to assist its beleaguered leader, William the Silent. However, travelling in disguise as part of a troupe of Egyptian players, Marlowe encounters trouble even before he leaves England. When the players make a detour to perform at the home of Dr John Dee, one of their tricks ends in tragedy - and an arrest for murder ...
Subjects: Fiction, History, Fiction, mystery & detective, historical, Great britain, fiction, Netherlands, fiction
Places: Great Britain, Netherlands
People: Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593), John Dee (1527-1608), Francis Walsingham Sir (1530?-1590), William I Prince of Orange (1533-1584)
Time periods: Elizabeth, 1558-1603, Eighty Years' War, 1568-1648