SIR FRANCIS Walsingham, founder of Queen Elizabeth I’s secret service, dug up dirt on many of England’s notables as a way to forestall Catholic plots against the Protestant ruler. Walsingham ...

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Sir Francis Walsingham, the spymaster extraordinaire and priest-hunter at the court of Elizabeth I, was devoted to the defence of the Tudor realm and its anti-Catholic cause. With Machiavellian ...

British historian Cooper’s biography of Elizabethan spymaster Francis Walsingham is as thrilling and suspenseful as any modern spy novel. Plumbing both primary and secondary sources, Cooper ...

In DePoy’s middling second Christopher Marlowe mystery (after 2016’s A Prisoner in Malta), Sir Francis Walsingham, Elizabeth I’s spymaster, dispatches the playwright to Delft, Holland ...