An Instance of the Fingerpost

✍ Scribed by Pears, Iain

• Book ID: 107868467
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 418 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

We are in Oxford in the 1660sa time, and place, of great intellectual, scientific, religious and political ferment. Robert Grove, a fellow of New College is found dead in suspicious circumstances. A young woman is accused of his murder. We hear about the events surrounding his death from four witnessesMarco da Cola, a Venetian Catholic intent on claiming credit for the invention of blood transfusion; Jack Prescott, the son of a supposed traitor to the Royalist cause determined to vindicate his father; John Wallis, chief cryptographer to both Cromwell and Charles II, a mathematician, theologican and inveterate plotter; and Anthony Wood, the famous Oxford antiquary. Each witness tells their version of what happened. Only one reveals the extraordinary truth. An Instance of the Fingerpost is a magnificent tour de forcean utterly compelling historical mystery story with a plot that twists and turns and keeps the reader guessing until the very last page.

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