The stone wife : a Peter Diamond investigation / Peter Lovesey.
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TextSeries: Lovesey, Peter. Peter Diamond mystery ; Publisher: New York, NY : Soho Crime, [2014]Description: 358 pages ; 24 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1616953934 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 9781616953935 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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Main Library | Mystery | Lovesey Peter | PD 14 | Available | 33111007622877 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Book 14 in the Detective Superintendent Peter Diamond series, one of Soho's bestselling and most critically acclaimed series, this time including a Chauceresque twist.
At a Bath auction house, a large slab of carved stone is up for sale. At the height of very competitive bidding, there is a holdup attempt by three masked robbers. They shoot and kill the highest bidder, a professor who has recognized the female figure carved in the stone as Chaucer's Wife of Bath. The masked would-be thieves flee, leaving the stone behind.
Peter Diamond and his team are assigned to investigate, and the stone is moved into Diamond's office so he can research its origins. The carving causes such difficulties that he starts to think it has jinxed him. Meanwhile, as Diamond's leads take him to Chaucer's house in Somerset, his intrepid colleague Ingeborg goes undercover to try to track down the source of the handgun used in the murder.
When a competitive-bidding war for a rare carved stone is interrupted by three masked men who kill the highest bidder, Peter Diamond and his team investigate the carving's mystical origins while Ingeborg goes undercover to learn about the murder weapon.