Peter Lovesey is the author of more than thirty highly praised mystery novels. He has been awarded the CWA Gold and Silver Daggers, the Cartier Diamond Dagger for Lifetime Achievement, the Strand Magazine Award for Lifetime Achievement, the Macavity, Barry, and Anthony Awards, and many other honors. He lives in West Sussex, England.
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The Vault (Peter Diamond Series #6)
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ISBN-13:
9781569478134
- Publisher: Soho Press, Incorporated
- Publication date: 07/01/2003
- Series: Peter Diamond Series , #6
- Sold by: Penguin Random House Publisher Services
- Format: eBook
- Pages: 304
- Sales rank: 59,230
- File size: 2 MB
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A skeletal hand is unearthed in the vault under the Pump Room in Bath, England, near the site where Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein. Then a skull is excavated. The bones came from different corpses, and one is modern. Detective Superintendent Peter Diamond must solve a series of crimes including murder and forgery, requiring a knowledge of history, nineteenth century art, literature . . . and human nature.
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