Sergeant Verity and the Imperial Diamond
$39.27
- Paperback
252 pages
- Release Date
28 February 2013
Summary
Sergeant Verity’s second adventure sees him sweltering under the Indian sun, as mutiny brings pillage and war to Bengal. Attached to the Intelligence Department in Calcutta, Verity is given the task of tracing English women who have fallen into the hands of the mutineers, and who face death - or an even worse fate in the harem.
But this task is supplanted by a yet more desperate quest when the Kaiser-i-Hind, the great diamond which symbolises sovereignty over all India, disappear…Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781471904271 |
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| ISBN-10: | 147190427X |
| Author: | Francis Selwyn |
| Publisher: | The Murder Room |
| Imprint: | The Murder Room |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 252 |
| Release Date: | 28 February 2013 |
| Weight: | 41g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm |
| Series: | Sergeant Verity |
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About The Author
Francis Selwyn
Francis Selwyn (a pen name of Donald Thomas) was born in Somerset and educated at Queen’s College, Taunton, and Balliol College, Oxford. He holds a personal chair in the University of Wales, Cardiff, now Cardiff University. His numerous crime novels include two collections of Sherlock Holmes stories and a hugely successful historical detective series written under the pen name Francis Selwyn and featuring Sergeant Verity of Scotland Yard, as well as gritty police procedurals written under the name of Richard Dacre. He is also the author of seven biographies and a number of other non-fiction works, and won the Gregory Prize for his poems, Points of Contact. He lives in Bath with his wife.
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