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Murder Will Out How Marlowe Was Killed
Harvard scholar Dr. J Leslie Hotson uncovers records tracing the death of Christopher Marlowe to a baffling 1593 episode at Deptford. A mistaken reading of parish registers reopens a case naming Francis Frezer as the killer, with Ingram Vaughan later offered as another suspect in this Elizabethan mystery.
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