- Fiction, Private investigators, Stone Barrington (Fictitious character), Detective and mystery stories
E-book Extra: “We Are Very Different People”: Stuart Woods on Stone Barrington.When beautiful Allison Manning arrives in St. Marks without her husband, she falls under the scrutiny of the notorious Minister of Justice Sir Winston Sutherland. Ex-cop attorney Stone Barrington spots Sutherland's strange motives, and must race to sort madness from murder -- before the storm of the century.
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Classical in form, contemporary, unpretentious and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- unpretentiousprestige
- gravecomic
- resolvedopen-ended
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About the book
- Author
- Stuart Woods
- First published
- 1997
- Pages
- 420
- Publisher
- HarperCollins, Harper and Row, Wheeler Pub.
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780061801945
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“Stone Barrington slowly opened his eyes and stared blearily at the pattern of moving light above him.”
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