Jude Cook

The first Cambridge spy: A Fine Madness, by Alan Judd, reviewed

Thomas Phelipps is dispatched to Cambridge by the Elizabethan spymaster Francis Walsingham to recruit the young Kit Marlowe for a career in espionage

A cat that walked alone: portrait of a young man thought to be Christopher Marlowe. Credit: Alamy 
issue 15 May 2021
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  • A Fine Madness

    Alan Judd

    Simon & Schuster, pp. 256, £14

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