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A VENGEFUL LONGING
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| By: |
R. N. Morris |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
| List price:
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£5.82 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0571252311 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780571252312 |
| Publisher: |
FABER & FABER |
| Pub. date: |
2 April, 2009 |
| Pages: |
336 |
| Description: |
In the heat of the St Petersburg summer of 1868, a doctor's wife and son are found dead, victims of a suspected poisoning. The doctor is arrested, but when further bodies are discovered it sets investigator Porfiry Petrovich on a thrilling and dangerous chase through the dark heart of the city. |
| Synopsis: |
'Satisfies on more than one level - as a story of investigation and also as a historical novel crammed with sharply individual characters' - Andrew Taylor, author of "The American Boy." In the heat of the St Petersburg summer of 1868, a doctor's wife and son are found dead, victims of a suspected poisoning. The doctor is arrested, but when further bodies are discovered it sets investigator Porfiry Petrovich on a thrilling and dangerous chase through the dark heart of the city, encountering aristocrats, soldiers, beggars and prostitutes as he hunts down a ruthless and elusive killer. 'Teems with tsarist spies, would-be revolutionaries and a stifling bureaucracy that frustrates ordinary Russians at every turn' - "Sunday Times." 'Morris' St Petersburg comes alive in intense imagery' - "Financial Times." |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Faber & Faber Crime |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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