Everyone, including his own wife, seems to think that Kit’s father is indeed guilty of the crime, so what is a boy to do but to start investigating on his own… And in this highly insecure personal situation, someone is murdered, a man is murdered, a man who had befriended Kit and entrusted a mysterious package to him just before his death, and John Marlowe is arrested for the crime. In addition to that, Kit finds himself developing romantic feelings for his best friend Ginger who happens to be male, making their burgeoning love very much forbidden and dangerous to both of them. A prospect he dreads, not just because he feels unfit for the profession but also because John Marlowe is a drunkard and violent man who regularly beats both his wife and his son.
He just left another apprenticeship and really feels drawn towards a scholarly vocation but does not have the means to pursue it and may be forced to apprentice with his father. The Cobbler’s Boy is different from both Bear’s and Addison’s previous books in that it contains no fantastical elements at all, but instead is a historical mystery set in the Elizabethan age and with a young Christopher Marlowe as its protagonist, the novel is pitched by the authors as “Kit Marlowe, Boy Detective” and this indeed sums it up very nicely.įifteen-year old Christopher Marlowe is living with his parents and his four sisters in Canterbury, and is unsure what to do with his life.
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