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Historical person
1570–1606
Guy Fawkes was an English Catholic conspirator involved in the Gunpowder Plot of 1605. He was discovered guarding explosives beneath the House of Lords in a plan intended to kill James I and much of the political establishment.
In Peter Tonkin’s Shadow of Treason, Poley identifies the need for an explosives expert and focuses his agents on the soldier Guy Fawkes. In David Field’s Death by Gunpowder, But when that plot also fails and Guy Fawkes starts revealing the names of accomplices under torture in the Tower, those who had been complicit in the plot run for cover. Other novels featuring Guy Fawkes include Antonia Fraser’s The Life and Times of King James VI of Scotland, I of England.
Series
The Queen’s Intelligencer series fictionalises the career of Robert Poley, a real Elizabethan agent associated with the Babington Plot and the death of Christopher Marlowe. In publication order, Poley infiltrates the Essex circle, manages the 1603 succession, follows the Gunpowder conspirators, works against a poison network during the…
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The Bailiff Mountsorrel Tudor Mysteries follow county bailiff Edward Mountsorrel and town bailiff Francis Barton as they enforce the law in Nottinghamshire during the final years of Elizabeth I and the opening of James VI and I’s reign. Local murders and disappearances repeatedly lead into wider conflicts over…
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