The Hidden Man Tapa dura - 2015

St. Martin's Press, 2015. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

N.Y.: Saint Martin's Press, 2005. 1st U.S. Edition, March 2015, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. [First published in England by Constable as "The Scrivener"]. Includes 2-page map of Preston and Preston Moor, 1742. "For financial buccaneering it's the 18th Century you want....The sleuths in this series are too precious for words, but what's valuable here is the author's portrait of the emergence of investment banking." -Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review. The year is 1742, and the people of Preston are looking forward to their ancient once-every-twenty-years festival of merriment and excess, the Preston Guild. But the prospect darkens as the town plunges into a financial crisis caused by the death of pawnbroker and would-be banker Philip Pimbo, shot behind the locked door of his office. Is it suicide? Coroner Titus Cragg suspects so, but Dr Luke Fidelis disagrees. To… Leer más

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.