Oswald Doyle, private investigator, while searching for a missing Thesbian becomes intrigued about the life and death of the Elizabethan playwright Christopher Marlowe. For some 400 years, rumors have abounded about the fate of the young dramatist. He was brilliant, wild, and rebellious, and the target of the Queen's Privy Council. Jennifer Smethurst, the genius scientist and inventor of a quantum travel machine, meets with Declan Merrick, a mega-rich search engine guru with a view of getting Boogle, his company to invest in her Quantime the name she gives to her machine. Oswald the only person who had ever experienced QSA (Quantum Space Assimilation) when he went to Nineteenth-Century France to investigate van Gogh's death, persuades Jennifer to let him go to Sixteenth Century London to investigate Marlowe's death. Traveling with Declan the pair gets on the playwright's trail. Ossie questions the people closely linked with Marlowe. His investigation into the dramatist's death reaches the ears of powerful, dangerous individuals who want to keep the truth buried, and Ossie with it.