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Stone's fall a novel

In this dazzling historical mystery, John Stone, financier and arms dealer, dies falling out of a window at his London home. The quest to uncover the truth behind his death plays out against the backdrop of high-stakes international finance, Europe's first great age of espionage, and the start of th...

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Main Author: Pears, Iain
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Spiegel & Grau, 2009.
Edition:1st U.S. ed.
Subjects:
Capitalists and financiers > Fiction.
Arms transfers > Fiction.
International finance > Fiction.
Europe > History > 1871-1918 > Fiction.
Mystery fiction > Europe.
Historical fiction > Europe.
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Summary:In this dazzling historical mystery, John Stone, financier and arms dealer, dies falling out of a window at his London home. The quest to uncover the truth behind his death plays out against the backdrop of high-stakes international finance, Europe's first great age of espionage, and the start of the twentieth century's arms race.
Physical Description:594 p. ; 25 cm.
ISBN:9780385522847
0385522843
Author Notes:Iain Pears was born in England in 1955. He has worked as an art historian, a TV consultant and a journalist. After several years working for Reuters, he went to Yale University to complete his book on eighteenth-century British art entitled The Discovery of Painting. He has written several novels include An Instance of the Fingerpost, The Dream of Scipio, Stone's Fall, Arcadia, and the Jonathan Argyll series.

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