- American Detective and mystery stories, Fiction, International Criminal Police Organization, Italian fiction
"The nightmare begins when a cargo ship arriving at Richmond's Deep Water Terminal from Belgium is discovered to be transporting a locked, sealed container holding the decomposed remains of a stowaway."
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Classical in form, grave, earnest and contemporary.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- contemporarynostalgic
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- Patricia Cornwell
- First published
- 1999
- Pages
- 441
- Publisher
- Putnam, QPD, Putnam Adult
- Editions
- 54
- Language
- Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese
- ISBN
- 9783455302820
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- American Detective and mystery stories
- Fiction
- International Criminal Police Organization
- Italian fiction
- Kay Scarpetta (Fictitious character)
- Large type books
- Medical examiners (Law)
- Stowaways
- Translations into Russian
- Women detectives
- Detective and mystery stories
- Scarpetta, kay (fictitious character), fiction
“The late morning blazed with blue skies and the colors of fall, but none of it was for me.”
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