Dark Entry Kit Marlowe Series (Audible Audio Edition) M J Trow Andrew Wincott Soundings Books
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Cambridge, 1583. About to graduate from Corpus Christi, the young Christopher Marlowe spends his days studying Virgil and Aristotle, and his nights carousing with old friends. But when one of them, Ralph Whittingside, is discovered lying dead in his King's College room, mouth open in a silent scream, Marlowe refuses to accept the official verdict of suicide.
Calling on the help of his mentor, Sir Roger Manwood, Justice of the Peace, and Dr John Dee, a man who knows more of poisons than anyone else, Marlowe sets out to prove that his boyhood friend was murdered. But, if Whittingside did not die by his own hand, who was responsible?
Dark Entry Kit Marlowe Series (Audible Audio Edition) M J Trow Andrew Wincott Soundings Books
It's Cambridge, 1583, in the early years of the Elizabethan Age. And it's Christopher Marlowe. And it's a historical whodunit. Could there be a more exciting time or a more exciting hero? Possibly, but M.J. Trow has done a convincing job of making us believe so in his first episode of a series set in this period.In "Dark Entry" we are introduced to "Kit" Marlowe and his Corpus Christi College classmates at that august, venerable university. But "something's rotten" (to borrow a phrase of a Marlowe contemporary" on campus--in fact, more than merely "rotten," it's murder most royal and mayhem surely must follow! It does and Trow presents us with the genius that was Marlowe's, who sets out to find why two of his close friends and classmates have been found dead. In addition, another body was found in the River Cam. The coroner has pronounced them as "suicide," "accidental", and "death by drowning," but Marlowe is suspicious. He senses that the three have been murdered and all three deaths are related. He sets out to find the guilty. Along the way he is aided by his two remaining classmate friends and his patron Sir Roger Manwood and the Queen's magus himself, Dr. John Dee.
Trow shows a fine hand in developing his characters as the book progresses. Too, the author displays a respectable hand with his research into both the times and the university. Commendable and readable, indeed.
Needless to say, Marlowe triumphs (It's a historical murder mystery and they HAVE to be solved, so that comes as no surprise)--not only with finding the murderer but setting himself up for following books. I look forward to reading the remainder (five in all, at the present time).
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Dark Entry Kit Marlowe Series (Audible Audio Edition) M J Trow Andrew Wincott Soundings Books Reviews
I'm giving this three stars, not because it's really "OK", but because I can't say I disliked it enough for two stars. But this is, really, a bit of a mess.
First, the POV changes happen with no notice. You'll be following a scene only to hit a POV change with a "Whomp", and it's distracting. Too many times I had to backtrack and read things again because it was confusing and to see when the change had happened. It really interrupts the flow of the story to be flopping POV around like that. Putting in some markers or extra line spacing could fix that easily, although I don't like a lot of POV changes in the normal course of a story anyway. Hidden ones you don't see coming are constantly annoying.
Second, I wanted to like Kit Marlowe, but at times wondered why bother. Yes, he wants to solve the murders that have happened around him, but he kind of blunders through the whole thing and doesn't really do much of the solving. Not even at the end. Other people seem to come up with the answers and have to tell him, including the murderer. When people run across a clue by accident, it's not really mystery solving.
Third, the author can't seem to decide if magic really exists, or if Kit is gay, (or at least Bi). There's hints that the Magnus in the story really can do magic and just isn't doing magic tricks, and isn't just pulling the wool over people eyes. I can go along either way, but find it annoying just to have hints and no real confirmation. And when other characters, and Kit himself, seemed surprised by the idea that anyone would think he'd spend any private time with women, and he's even accused of Sodomy by some strange character we don't see again, then the truth shouldn't be a mystery to the reader. I don't really care either way, but either he is hiding his sexuality or he isn't. Hinting at it, bringing up the rumor, especially since we get to see from Kit's POV often, just confuses things needlessly when it's not addressed by the character. We're in his head, that would be there too.
The rest is a bit of a mess. Too many characters coming in and out, some pointless scenes and a riot with a canon that reads like something out of the Three Stooges, for no real reason I can tell than to fill up space. I found the ending flat, the mystery not well played out and the reveal less than realistic.
I want to like Kit Marlowe. Sometimes he's okay, sometimes a bit of a jerk and hot headed. The description of the life and times in that period of history are interesting at times. This could have been a lot more than it was. So I'm going to give the next one a shot, since I already have it ready to go. I'm hoping the author has fine tuned the next story a lot more, and not have it feel so scattered.
We'll see.
I've always been found of Christopher Marlowe as a poet and playwrite. As a character though-- M. J. Trow pulls him one way, then another, and tries too hard to rehabilitate him from the ancient canard that Marlowe indulged in the sin that was the sin of Sodom. I find that a bit disappointing because I think a little off kilter sexuality is attractive in a man (or a woman).
Anyway, Marlowe is just about to receive his degree at Cambridge when he and his friends are caught trying to sneak back into the college grounds after a night of roistering. Marlowe escapes but the others are caught and punished with beatings. This delays the ceremony while their stripes heal. Meanwhile, an old friend of Marlowe's youth is discovered in his room, dead. This friend who is called variously by the narrator Ralph and Rafe is one of three dead bodies that make an appearance in Cambridge that month.
Marlowe is called upon by his old mentor and protector to take on the task of discovering Ralph's killer.
While a bit disappointed in Marlowe and the other overlarge cast of characters, I did like the characterization of John Dee and would not have minded seeing more of him.
Andrew Wincott, the narrator, is pretty uninspired and does nothing to punch up the story. This book would have benefited from a younger voice with more of a period feel.
M. J. Trow is a prolific novelist whose books eventually all blend together. The explanation of the murder in this case was a bit of a groaner rather than an amazing piece of detective work.
It's Cambridge, 1583, in the early years of the Elizabethan Age. And it's Christopher Marlowe. And it's a historical whodunit. Could there be a more exciting time or a more exciting hero? Possibly, but M.J. Trow has done a convincing job of making us believe so in his first episode of a series set in this period.
In "Dark Entry" we are introduced to "Kit" Marlowe and his Corpus Christi College classmates at that august, venerable university. But "something's rotten" (to borrow a phrase of a Marlowe contemporary" on campus--in fact, more than merely "rotten," it's murder most royal and mayhem surely must follow! It does and Trow presents us with the genius that was Marlowe's, who sets out to find why two of his close friends and classmates have been found dead. In addition, another body was found in the River Cam. The coroner has pronounced them as "suicide," "accidental", and "death by drowning," but Marlowe is suspicious. He senses that the three have been murdered and all three deaths are related. He sets out to find the guilty. Along the way he is aided by his two remaining classmate friends and his patron Sir Roger Manwood and the Queen's magus himself, Dr. John Dee.
Trow shows a fine hand in developing his characters as the book progresses. Too, the author displays a respectable hand with his research into both the times and the university. Commendable and readable, indeed.
Needless to say, Marlowe triumphs (It's a historical murder mystery and they HAVE to be solved, so that comes as no surprise)--not only with finding the murderer but setting himself up for following books. I look forward to reading the remainder (five in all, at the present time).
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