Entered from the Sun: The Murder of Marlowe

✍ Scribed by Garrett, George

• Book ID: 108230391
• Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
• Year: 1990
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 215 KB
• Series: Elizabeth Trilogy 3
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

Set in 1597, George Garrett’s evocative novel pivots on the murder of Christopher Marlowe. Marlowe, the celebrated poet and playwright, has been dead for four years when a couple of engaging sleuths begin to follow the twisted trail that led to his death. Two men, Hunnyman, the quicksilver actor of many roles and acquaintance of Marlowe, and Barfoot, a volatile soldier/spy, are hired by two conflicting political factions to get to the bottom of Marlowe’s mysterious murder. Was the famous playwright the victim of a drunken brawl or did his death have a sinister dimension of political intrigue? Every page of the book is haunted as this consuming investigation plays itself out. REVIEWS: “George Garrett, like Marguerite Yourcenar and Mary Renault, has shaped the historical novel into an unchallengeable model of literary power and energy. Entered from the Sun is a wise and lovely book, but it is also full of fun, ribaldry, wry jokes, sex, and a vision of life which is at once despairing and hilarious.” – Thomas Flanagan. “George Garrett holds to the high standard he set for himself in the first two volumes of the trilogy. ENTERED FROM THE SUN jumps with life.” – Shelby Foote. “Marlowe haunts this evocation of the past-as-present, and of people you remember as if you had known them. A marvelous book.” – Mary Lee Settle.