Publisher Description
A skeletal hand is unearthed in the vault under the Pump Room in Bath, England, near the site where Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein. Then a skull is excavated. The bones came from different corpses, and one is modern. Detective Superintendent Peter Diamond must solve a series of crimes including murder and forgery, requiring a knowledge of history, nineteenth-century art, literature . . . and human nature.
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Everything the cerebral puzzle-addict craves, from tempting red herrings to literary arcana to deliciously plotted surprises.
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Kirkus Starred Review
About Peter Lovesey
Peter Lovesey, the author of more than thirty highly praised mystery novels, has won the British Crime Writers’ Association Silver and Gold Dagger awards as well as the Diamond Dagger for Lifetime Achievement and the Strand Magazine Lifetime Achievement Award in 2014. In the United States, he has received Edgar and Dilys nominations, an Anthony Award and a Macavity Award, and the Ellery Queen Readers Award, among others. In 2018, he was named a Mystery Writers of America Grand Master.
About Michael Healy
Michael Healy has appeared off Broadway and on
national television, most notably on Saturday Night Live for
three years, as well as in several national commercials. He continues to hone
his craft in Rhode Island, where he has won awards for acting. His audiobook
recordings include Mr. Midshipman Easy by Frederick
Marryat, The Collector of Lost Things by Jeremy Page,
and The Valley of Fear by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.