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I [A] oofty, utterly mesmerizing intellettuol thriller Don't miss it."
^If you lííced Umberto Eco's The Name of fhe Rose, you should run to buy lain Peak's lavishly erudite hiMorical mystery^—f/ie New York Jims
"Fa^dndtfng».quife éxtraordínary e]evdtes the murder mystery to the^ ¦ icategpry of high art." ^ —Los Angeles Times Book Review
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. Who poured the arsenic into the victim's brandy? The J evidence points to Sarah Blundy, a servant girl, She confesses to the crime and is sentenced to be hanged, p ' „ _
' "Yet, little is as it seems in this gripping the ways in which
witnesses can see the samé events yet remember them falsely. Each of four hdrra-tors—a Venetian medical student, a young man intent on proving his late father innocent of treason, a cryptographer and an archivist—fingers... Tovább

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I [A] oofty, utterly mesmerizing intellettuol thriller Don't miss it."
^If you lííced Umberto Eco's The Name of fhe Rose, you should run to buy lain Peak's lavishly erudite hiMorical mystery^—f/ie New York Jims
"Fa^dndtfng».quife éxtraordínary e]evdtes the murder mystery to the^ ¦ icategpry of high art." ^ —Los Angeles Times Book Review
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. Who poured the arsenic into the victim's brandy? The J evidence points to Sarah Blundy, a servant girl, She confesses to the crime and is sentenced to be hanged, p ' „ _
' "Yet, little is as it seems in this gripping the ways in which
witnesses can see the samé events yet remember them falsely. Each of four hdrra-tors—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/oüf fife/bfce." —People
;"Extraordinary this thriller brings not merely a huge cast of characters but a whole century vividly to life/' ^ —Newsweek
novel that will have you sitting up all night and calling in sick the next dfliy. It's that hard to put down." —Houston Chronicle
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