The Snake Stone

✍ Scribed by Jason Goodwin

• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 206 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

The captivating return of Yashim, the eunuch investigator from the intelligent, elliptical and beguilingly written"(The Times, London)bestseller The Janissary Tree

When a French archaeologist arrives in 1830s Istanbul determined to track down a lost Byzantine treasure, the local Greek communities are uncertain how to react; the man seems dangerously well informed. Yashim Togalu, who so brilliantly solved the mysterious murders in The Janissary Tree , is once again enlisted to investigate. But when the archaeologist's mutilated body is discovered outside the French embassy, it turns out there is only one suspect: Yashim himself.

The New York Times celebrated The Janissary Tree as "the perfect escapist mystery," and The Daily Telegraph called it "[A] tremendous first novel . . . Beautifully written, perfectly judged, humane, witty and captivating."

With The Snake Stone , Jason Goodwin delights us with another...