| Titre : |
The Strangler Vine |
| Type de document : |
texte imprimé |
| Auteurs : |
M.J. Carter, Auteur |
| Editeur : |
Penguin Books, 2014 |
| Description : |
328 p. |
| ISBN/ISSN : |
978-0-241-96655-6 |
| Langues : |
Anglais (eng) Langues originales : Anglais (eng) |
| Résumé : |
The first of three rip-roaring capers, introducing Blake and Avery, a Watson and Holmes duo for the 1830s and 40s.Calcutta 1837. The East India Company rules India - or most of it; and its most notorious and celebrated son, Xavier Mountstuart, has gone missing.William Avery, a down-at-heel junior officer in the Company's army, is sent to find him, in the unlikely company of the enigmatic and uncouth Jeremiah Blake. A more mismatched duo couldn't be imagined, but they must bury their differences as they are caught up in a search that turns up too many unanswered questions and seems bound to end in failure. |
| Nature du document : |
fiction |
| Thème de fiction : |
enquête/colonialisme |
| Genre : |
roman policier |
The Strangler Vine [texte imprimé] / M.J. Carter, Auteur . - Penguin Books, 2014 . - 328 p. ISBN : 978-0-241-96655-6 Langues : Anglais ( eng) Langues originales : Anglais ( eng)
| Résumé : |
The first of three rip-roaring capers, introducing Blake and Avery, a Watson and Holmes duo for the 1830s and 40s.Calcutta 1837. The East India Company rules India - or most of it; and its most notorious and celebrated son, Xavier Mountstuart, has gone missing.William Avery, a down-at-heel junior officer in the Company's army, is sent to find him, in the unlikely company of the enigmatic and uncouth Jeremiah Blake. A more mismatched duo couldn't be imagined, but they must bury their differences as they are caught up in a search that turns up too many unanswered questions and seems bound to end in failure. |
| Nature du document : |
fiction |
| Thème de fiction : |
enquête/colonialisme |
| Genre : |
roman policier |
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The Strangler Vine
de M.J. Carter
Penguin Books, 2014, 328 p.
The first of three rip-roaring capers, introducing Blake and Avery, a Watson and Holmes duo for the 1830s and 40s.Calcutta 1837. The East India Company rules India - or most of it; and its most notorious and celebrated son, Xavier Mountstuart, has gone missing.William Avery, a down-at-heel junior officer in the Company's army, is sent to find him, in the unlikely company of the enigmatic and uncouth Jeremiah Blake. A more mismatched duo couldn't be imagined, but they must bury their differences as they are caught up in a search that turns up too many unanswered questions and seems bound to end in failure.
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Carter M.J.
The Strangler Vine.
Penguin Books, 2014, 328 p.
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