Black Gold
$25.20
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
31 August 2012
Summary
Anne Cartier, a teacher of the deaf, accepts an offer to help a deaf child whose governess died in a fall down the stairs of the family’s palatial mansion. Anne suspects the death might not have been an accident and begins to investigate. She is aided by her friend and suitor, Paul de Saint-Martin. They believe the young woman’s death may have been the work of renegade French army officer Captain Fitzroy, already accused of a brutal rape in Paris. Fitzroy has found refuge at the mansion with …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781590580219 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1590580214 |
| Author: | Charles O'Brien |
| Publisher: | Sourcebooks, Inc |
| Imprint: | Poisoned Pen Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 31 August 2012 |
| Weight: | 440g |
| Dimensions: | 140mm x 216mm |
| Series: | Anne Cartier Mysteries |
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Critics Review
“The pace is relentless; the characters are richly and fully drawn…a complex, richly detailed, well-written historical novel.” – Carl Brookins
“Fully realized characters, a complex plot and a surprise ending sure to satisfy.” * Publishers Weekly *
“This is a historical mystery to get lost in, satisfying at every level.” * Booklist *
“A good story in the grand style of Dumas, told with energy and verve.” – Bruce Alexander
Charles O'Brien
Charles O’Brien began writing historical mystery novels from a lifelong love of delving into the past. It began in third grade with the tales of King Arthur and his knights of the Round Table, and evolved into a career teaching and researching history at Western Illinois University in Macomb, IL. Along the way, he served as an army medic in Korea and as vicar of a small church on a bluff overlooking the Mississippi.
In his career in academe, Charles had researched and taught a wide range of topics on American and European history. His historical mystery series, featuring Anne Cartier and Colonel Paul de Saint-Martin, is set in England and France in the years leading to the French Revolution.
Charles lives in Williamstown, a lively small college town in the Berkshire Mountains of western Massachusetts.
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