About the book: 2018 / Prestige Book Publishing House released a collection of historical investigations by Kirill Eskov under one cover - "Testimony of Citizen Clio". In addition to “The Gospel of Afranius”, which has already become a classic of the genre (as well as “Japanese Oxymoron”, “CIA as Mythologems” and “Déjà Vu”), the book also presents a new historical detective story - “A Pure English Murder”: an investigation into the mysterious death of Christopher Marlowe . The extravagant genius of Marlowe - “The Poet and the Spy”, as he is attested in the title of his recent Oxford biography - was the greatest of Shakespeare’s predecessors in English poetry and drama and - as is their custom in England - an employee of the secret service of the “terrible Walsingham”. On May 30, 1593, he was killed, with a dagger in the eye, during a feast with his colleagues in the spy department. Either in an accidental quarrel provoked by himself (as the investigation decided), or on the orders of his superiors, or he was not killed at all, but was evacuated by the Service to the Continent - where he later wrote poems and plays under the name of a certain “Shakespeare”... The investigation of this strange Many books and films are devoted to history - from serious scientific monographs to historical novels and science fiction television series. Eskov, in his signature manner, first takes apart all the previous versions piece by piece and, finding them all unsatisfactory, puts this puzzle together in a new way. Whether the reconstruction of events he proposed is correct is for experts to judge, but that it is really beautiful - “the company guarantees»!