Splintered Icon
Format: kindle
ASIN: B009BDTMII
Publish date: April 1st 2007
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Pages no: 368
Edition language: English
This book is a thriller and it is two thrillers in one. There are two stories going on. On the one hand an antiquarian book dealer is hired to translate a manuscript that dates from the sixteenth century and is written in a kind of shorthand from that time. The man who hired him is murdered soon the...
Antiquarian book dealer Harry Blake is called upon to translate and provide a valuation for a journal -- which turns out to belong to a sailor on Sir Walter Raleigh's Roanoke expedition. When his client is murdered, the man's daughter (Debbie) retains Harry to continue the translation.Pretty soon, ...
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