Why Mermaids Sing: A Sebastian St. Cyr Mystery - Couverture souple

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Harris, C. S.

 
9780451225337: Why Mermaids Sing: A Sebastian St. Cyr Mystery
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ISBN 10 : 0451225333 ISBN 13 : 9780451225337
Editeur : Penguin Publishing Group, 2008

Synopsis

It's September 1811, and someone is killing the wealthy young sons of London's most prominent families. Partially butchered, with strange objects stuffed into their mouths, their bodies are found dumped in public places at dawn.

When the grisly remains of Alfred, Lord Stanton's eldest son are discovered in the Old Palace Yard beside the House of Lords, the local magistrate turns to Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, for help.

Ranging from the gritty world of Thames-side docks to the luxurious drawing rooms of Mayfair, Sebastian finds himself confronting his most puzzling--and disturbing--case yet. With the help of his trusted allies--young servant Tom, Irish doctor Paul Gibson, and his lover Kat Boleyn--Sebastian struggles to decipher a cryptic set of clues that link the scion of a banking family to the son of a humble Kentish vicar.

For as one killing follows another, Sebastian discovers he is confronting a murderer with both a method and a purpose to his ritualized killings, and that the key to it all may lie in the enigmatic stanzas of a haunting poem...and in a secret so dangerous that men are willing to sacrifice their own children to keep the truth from becoming known.

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À propos de l?auteur

C.S. Harris graduated with a degree in Classics before earning a Ph.D. in European history. A scholar of the French Revolution and 19th-century Europe, she has lived in Europe and various far-flung parts of the old British Empire. She now lives in New Orleans with her husband, a retired Army Intelligence Officer, and two daughters.

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Éditeur
Penguin Publishing Group
Date d'édition
2008
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0451225333
ISBN 13 
9780451225337
Reliure
Poche
Nombre de pages
352
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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9780451222268: Why Mermaids Sing: A Sebastian St. Cyr Mystery

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ISBN 10 :  0451222261 ISBN 13 :  9780451222268
Editeur : New Amer Library, 2007
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