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Sto caricando le informazioni... Two Bronze Penniesdi Chris Nickson
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Two Bronze Pennies provides a disparate set of tales. On the one hand, Detective Inspector Tom Harper has been charged with finding the perpetrator of a series of anti-Jewish murders in Leeds. This community, made up primarily of immigrants and their England-born children is tight-lipped and angry. Harper has difficulty getting the information he needs. He also worries that retaliative violence may break out at any moment. On the other hand, Harper is also charged with assisting Capitaine Bertrand Muyrere, a French detective investigating the disappearance of Louie LePrince, the French inventor of “moving pictures” (sorry, Edison). LePrince was a historical figure and did disappear on September 16, 1890. Harper is aided by his wife Annabelle, a self-sufficient pub owner with a bit more tact than the detective possesses. As a pub owner, she has an income significantly greater than Harper’s, which makes for some interesting moments between the pair. If you enjoy historical mysteries, especially those carefully grounded in fact, Two Bronze Pennies will provide you with satisfying reading, taking you beyond the usual depictions of Victorian England to a complex, volatile time. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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Fiction.
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Historical Fiction.
HTML:The second intriguing historical mystery to feature Detective Inspector Tom Harper Leeds, England, Christmas Eve, 1890. DI Tom Harper is looking forward to a well-earned rest. But it's not to be. A young man has been found stabbed to death in the city's poverty-stricken Jewish district, his body carefully arranged in the shape of a cross, two bronze pennies covering his eyes. Could someone be pursuing a personal vendetta against the Jews? Harper's investigations are hampered by the arrival of Capitaine Bertrand Muyrere of the French police, who has come to Leeds to look into the disappearance of the famous French inventor Louis Le Prince, vanished without trace after boarding a train to Paris. With no one in the close-knit Jewish community talking to the police and with tensions rising, DI Harper realizes he'll have to resort to more unorthodox methods in order to unmask the killer. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)823.92Literature English English fiction Modern Period 2000-Classificazione LCVotoMedia:
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DI Tom Harper is an engaging enough chap. Newly married and in love, he's a bit of the everyman good fellow you really want to win in the end. Plus, you get historical mystery with an interesting religious storyline that will make you think.
Definitely a good one for historical mystery lovers, and a pleasant way to pass the afternoon. ( )