- Fiction, Private investigators, Jews, Capitalists and financiers
THE HISTORICAL THRILLER OF THE YEARBenjamin Weaver is an outsider in eighteenth-century London: a Jew among Christians; a ruffian among aristocrats; a retired pugilist who, hired by London's gentry, travels through the criminal underworld in pursuit of debtors and thieves.In A Conspiracy of Paper, Weaver investigates a crime of the most personal sort: the mysterious death of his estranged father, a notorious stockjobber.
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Classical in form, grave, earnest and resolved.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- resolvedopen-ended
- rawmeticulous
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- Author
- David Liss, David Liss
- First published
- 2000
- Pages
- 480
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group, Azbuka-klassika, Thorndike Press
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- Russian, English
- ISBN
- 9780375502927
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“FOR SOME YEARS NOW, the gentlemen of the book trade have pressed me in the most urgent fashion to commit my memoirs to paper; for, these men have argued, there are many who would gladly pay a few shillings to learn of the true and surprising adventures of my life.”
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