The Spider's Web: A Mystery of Ancient Ireland - Couverture souple

Tremayne, Peter

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0451195590 ISBN 13 : 9780451195593

Editeur : Signet, 2000

Synopsis

Book by Tremayne Peter

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Ebert is not a man to make enemies. He is a chieftain with a reputation for kindliness and generosity. Yet, one night, his household is aroused by a scream from his chamber. The servants burst in to find Móen, a young man to whom Eber had extended his protection, crouched over the bloody body of the chieftain. Móen's clothes are drenched in Eber's blood and he is clutching a bloodstained knife in his hand.

There seems no doubt of culpability, but why did Móen kill the gentle and courteous Eber? The problem is exacerbated by the fact that Móen himself cannot tell them - for he is deaf, dumb and blind...

Sister Fidelma, advocate of the ancient Irish law courts, is compelled to begin an investigation of the killing in order to present an argument on Móen's behalf before he is condemned. Assisted by Brother Eadulf, Fidelma finds that the path to truth twists and turns with the sinister forces of primitive passions and subtle ambitions - and leads inexorably to a final, stunning denouement.

Biographie de l'auteur

Peter Tremayne is the fiction pseudonym of a well-known authority on the ancient Celts, who has utilised his knowledge of the Brehon law system and 7th-Century Irish society to create a new concept in detective fiction.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Signet
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0451195590
• ISBN 13: 9780451195593
• Reliure: Poche
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• Personne responsable: non disponible