279: Was Christopher Marlowe Murdered? w/ M.J. Trow - A True Crime History Podcast

Most Notorious! A True Crime History Podcast

Erik Rivenes

True Crime, History, Education

4.7 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2023

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Christopher "Kit" Marlowe is considered one of the greatest playwrights of the Elizabethan era, but was also known as a hothead, a scoundrel and a member of the secretive School of Night. When he was stabbed through the eye at the age of twenty-nine in 1593, those who had it in for him were no doubt relieved to hear of his death. He had worked as an agent under Queen Elizabeth's legendary spymaster Sir Francis Walsingham and had very likely taken some reputation-destroying secrets to his grave.

Many, however, believed that he was murdered, and theories swirl around his demise to this day. Did the man who stabbed Marlowe do it in self-defense, or was it really to get rid of him? Or did Marlowe actually fake his own death and go on to ghost write for William Shakespeare?

My guest is M.J. Trow, and his book is called "Who Killed Kit Marlowe?: A Contract to Murder in Elizabethan England". He shares the story of this complex figure and offers his own theory on who he believes was behind Marlowe's unfortunate end.

Amazon's M. J. Trow page is here.

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0:59.0	Welcome everyone to another episode of the most notorious podcast. I'm
1:29.0	Eric Rivenes. Thank you for joining me. Hope you were doing well. I am very
1:35.3	pleased to have MJ Trow on the show. He is a prolific Welsh writer and has
1:42.5	written now over 100 books, mostly fiction, including multiple detective
1:48.6	series with protagonists like Inspector Lestrade based on the character from
1:54.2	the Sherlock Holmes stories and the subject of our episode today, Christopher
1:58.9	Kit Marlow. He has also written nonfiction true crime with subject matter
2:05.1	ranging from Jack the Ripper to the Thames Torsow murders to the mystery
2:10.2	surrounding the disappearance of the princes in the tower. The focus of today's
2:15.2	interview is his book titled Who Killed Kit Marlow? A contract to murder in
2:22.5	Elizabethan, England. So glad to have you on. Thank you. Thank you Eric for
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