The Vault: Inspector Peter Diamond Investigation Series, Book 6
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| Rating | : | 4.87 (616 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B0718WF2QX |
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| Number of Pages | : | 274 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-04-11 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Detective Superintendent Peter Diamond must solve a series of crimes including murder and forgery, requiring a knowledge of history, 19th-century art, literatureand human nature.. 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
J Powell said Bones are found in the Vault! Peter Diamond to the rescue.. Bath must be a very interesting place. Lots of murders and mysteries, some of them very old. Occasionally workers discover a horrible surprise when digging in the ground. This happens in an very old vault and seems cut and dry, old old hand found, murder from Roman times? Except they find also more bones, and they are recent!!Complicated plot which pulls in Mary Shelley who lived in the house above vault. It was here she wrote Frankenstein's Monster, one of the greatest horror stories of all time. Various rare and priceless items are now showing up in the antique store. Clever Whodunnit "The Vault" by Peter Lovesey is a clever little book about a literary mystery.Joe Dougan, an American professor on vacation, visits Bath to see the place where Mary Shelley actually wrote most of "Frankenstein". (This itself was fascinating since I had always assumed that it was written in Switzerland during the famous let's-write-a-ghost-story holiday with Lord Byron and Percy Shelley.) Believing it to be the remnants of Shelley's house, Dougan wants to enter a vault under the Pump Room where, coincidentally, police (in the form of DS Peter Diamond) have begun an exca. sherry schwartz said I like Peter Diamond books and this one especially. I like Peter Diamond books and this one especially. Not only was the mystery a good one, but the characters were interesting and well defined. I am not a chamber music follower, but I did learn a lot about that it and may even try listening to some of it. I must admit, Mr. Lovesey did get me at the end, but that's the kind of mystery I enjoy, where you don't see the final results coming.