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Lieferstatus:	i.d.R. innert 7-14 Tagen versandfertig
Veröffentlichung:	Mai 2002
Genre:	Romane, Erzählungen, Gedichte
	FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Historical / Historical crime and mysteries / Historical mysteries
ISBN:	9780142000809
EAN-Code:	9780142000809
Verlag:	Penguin Publishing Group
Einband:	Kartoniert
Sprache:	English
Dimensionen:	H 203 mm / B 129 mm / D 22 mm
Gewicht:	437 gr
Seiten:	402
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Inhalt:

A cryptic summons to a remote country house launches Isaac Inchbold, a London bookseller and antiquarian, on an odyssey through seventeenth-century Europe. Charged with the task of restoring a magnificent library destroyed by the war, Inchbold moves between Prague and the Tower Bridge in London, his fortunes—and his life—hanging on his ability to recover a missing manuscript. Yet the lost volume is not what it seems, and his search is part of a treacherous game of underworld spies and smugglers, ciphers, and forgeries. Inchbold's adventure is compelling from beginning to end as Ross King vividly recreates the turmoil of Europe in the seventeenth century—the sacks of great cities; Raleigh's final voyage; the quest for occult knowledge; and a watery escape from three mysterious horsemen. A Book Sense 76 pick