One Dagger For Two

London, 1593.

Queen Elizabeth sits on the English throne and plague ravages the streets of the nation’s capital.

Against this backdrop poet and playwright Christopher Marlowe struggles to complete his new play, Edward II, repeatedly succumbing to the more enjoyable distractions of drinking and gambling and not entirely trustworthy companions.

But London’s pleasures are not all that capture his attention.

Though he fancies himself in love with Awdrey, the wife of his patron Thomas Walsingham, a chance encounter with a mysterious woman propels his life down a different path — one that will ultimately lead to his end.

Philip Lindsay was born in Sydney, Australia, the son of Norman Lindsay, the well-known Australian artist and author of The Magic Pudding, an Australian children’s classic. Philip, after an apprenticeship on Sydney newspapers, arrived in England in 1929 and was immediately caught in the English slump. For several years he only just managed to exist until he wrote his first novel, Panama is Burning. Encouraged by Compton Mackenzie’s review of this in the Daily Mail which spurred the realization that historical costume novels were what he really wanted to write, he went on to become one of England’s best known authors in this genre. He had more than thirty books to his credit when he died in 1958.

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