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When human bones begin to turn up in the vault of Bath's Pump Room, Detective Superintendent Peter Diamond is called in to investigate a series of crimes that requires his unique knowledge of history, nineteenth-century art and literature, and modern-day human psychology. Reprint.
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“Exquisitely intricate.” —The New York Times Book ReviewA 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. Detective Superintendent Peter Diamond must solve a series of crimes including murder and forgery, requiring a knowledge of history, nineteenth century art, literature . . . and human nature.
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