The Peverell Press, a two-hundred-year-old publishing firm housed in a dramatic mock-Venetian palace on the Thames, is certainly ripe for change. But the proposals of its ruthlessly ambitious new managing director, Gerard Etienne, have made him dangerous enemies - a discarded mistress, a neglected and humiliated author, and rebellious colleagues and staff. When Gerard's body is discovered bizarrely desecrated, there is no shortage of suspects and Dalgliesh and his team are confronted with a puzzle of extraordinary complexity and a murderer who is prepared to strike again. 'Outstanding ...These are books to escape into, delighting in the sense that you are in safe hands, no matter how unsafe the subject' - Kate Kellaway, "Observer". 'An elegantly written, splendidly atmospheric and immensely satisfying mystery' - "Sunday Telegraph".
| ISBN | 057124890X | | Pages | 624 | | ISBN13 | 9780571248902
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 492 | | Publisher | Faber and Faber | | Published in | London | | Imprint | Faber and Faber Crime | | Previous ISBN | 9780571229598 | | Format | Paperback | | Height (mm) | 198 | | Publication date | 03 Sep 2009 | | Width (mm) | 126 | | DEWEY | 823.914 | | Spine width (mm) | 38 | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | Academic level | General |
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