Murder in the Queen's Armes
The Skeleton Detective puzzles over the theft of an ancient bit of bone-and a student's murder-in this novel by the Edgar Award-winning author of Switcheroo. Anthropology professor Gideon Oliver would prefer to keep his mind on his beautiful new bride Julie during their English honeymoon, but one intrusive question will not stop nagging at him: Who would want to steal a thirty-thousand-year-old parieto-occipital calvarial fragment? Yet someone has lifted this chunk of prehistoric human skull from a musty museum in Dorchester. Then, thirty miles away, an archaeology student is murdered, increasing tension and suspicion at a dig that had alread…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4976-4313-0
- EAN: 9781497643130
- Produktnummer: 16638530
- Verlag: Open Road Media Sci Fi & Fanta
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 200 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.1 cm x D1.5 cm 271 g
- Reihenbandnummer: 3
- Gewicht: 271
- Sonstiges: Ab 18 J.
Über den Autor
Aaron Elkins is a former anthropologist and professor who has been writing mysteries and thrillers since 1982. His major continuing series features forensic anthropologist-detective Gideon Oliver, the Skeleton Detective. There are fifteen published titles to date in the series. The Gideon Oliver books have been (roughly) translated into a major ABC-TV series and have been selections of the Book-of-the-Month Club, the Literary Guild, and the Readers Digest Condensed Mystery Series. His work has been published in a dozen languages. Mr. Elkins won the 1988 Edgar Award for best mystery of the year for Old Bones, the fourth book in the Gideon Oliver Series. He and his cowriter and wife, Charlotte, also won an Agatha Award, and he has also won a Nero Wolfe Award. Mr. Elkins lives on Washington's Olympic Peninsula with Charlotte.
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