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A national bestseller and one of the New York Public Librarys 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 , 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 narratorsa Venetian medical student, a young man intent on proving his late father innocent of treason, a cryptographer, and an archivistfingers a different culpritan erudite and entertaining tour de force. People
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Author: Iain Pears
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 04/01/2000
Pages: 704
Weight: 1.61lbs
Size: 8.97h x 5.96w x 1.48d
ISBN: 9781573227957
Language: English
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