An Instance of the Fingerpost by Pears, Iain

An Instance of the Fingerpost (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781573227957)

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An Instance of the Fingerpost by Pears, Iain

An Instance of the Fingerpost

$30.00
An Instance of the Fingerpost by Pears, Iain

An Instance of the Fingerpost

$30.00
Format: Paperback
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A national bestseller and one of the New York Public Library's Books to Remember, An Instance of the Fingerpost is a thrilling historical mystery from Iain Pears.

"It is 1663, and England is wracked with intrigue and civil strife. When an Oxford don is murdered, it seems at first that the incident can have nothing to do with great matters of church and state....Yet, little is as it seems in this gripping novel, which dramatizes the ways in which witnesses can see the same events yet remember them falsely. Each of four narrators--a Venetian medical student, a young man intent on proving his late father innocent of treason, a cryptographer, and an archivist--fingers a different culprit...an erudite and entertaining tour de force." --People

Iain Pears's The Dream of Scipio and The Portrait are also available from Riverhead Books.

Author: Iain Pears
ISBN-10: 1573227951
ISBN-13: 9781573227957
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 04/01/2000
Pages: 704
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.61lbs
Size: 8.97h x 5.96w x 1.48d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly Best Books 01/01/1998 pg. 42
Entertainment Weekly 05/19/2000 pg. 65
By Iain Pears
By Iain Pears
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Iain Pears was born in 1955. Educated at Wadham College, Oxford, he has worked as a journalist, an art historian, and a television consultant in England, France, Italy, and the United States. He is the author of seven highly praised detective novels, a book of art history, and countless articles on artistic, financial, and historical subjects, as well as the international bestseller An Instance of the Fingerpost. He lives in Oxford, England.

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