|summary=The mysterious life of Elizabethan playwright Christopher Marlowe is examined in this unusual novel. Written entirely in blank verse, as if by Marlowe himself, ''The Marlowe Papers'' centres on what might have happened if the author of ''Tamburlaine'' and ''Doctor Faustus'' had not been murdered in a tavern brawl in 1593.
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'''WINNER; [[Desmond Elliott Prize for Fiction 2013]]'''
''Stop. Pay attention. Hear a dead man speak''