A FINE MADNESS: A Christopher Marlowe Mystery. By Alan Judd, pen name of Alan Edwin Petty. New York: Pegasus Crime, (2022). First American edition, first printing. "First Pegasus Books cloth edition February 2022" statement and first printing number code sequence 10 through 1 to the copyright page, $25.95 to the jacket's flap. The author, a Royal Society of Literature Fellow, and Guardian Fiction Award winner, also a soldier, diplomat, historian, and security analyst, wrote the Charles Thoroughgood novel series including the BBC film adapted A BREED OF HEROES. This well-depicted historical mystery involves Christopher 'Kit' Marlowe's murder, his friend Thomas Phelippes, and a very interested King James. Nice first printing gift. NO remainder mark. Minutely pushed to the lower spine edge, else very nearly fine, square, and firm in brown over amber boards with gilt embossed titles to the spine, brown-and-amber headband and tail-band, amber end-papers; in a fine dust jacket. After scanning for this entry, the dust jacket will be placed in a clear, removable protective sleeve. PLEASE VIEW OUR STORE FOR MORE GREAT MYSTERY BOOKS THANKS!