- Murder, Influence, Fiction, Investigation
Three children are massacred in their beds. The crushed corpse of the mother is discovered in a dockside warehouse. Hanno Stiffeniis, a Prussian magistrate, goes to investigate, intending to apply the 'philosophical method' he had learnt four years earlier from Immanuel Kant.
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Grave, classical in form, earnest and plot-driven.
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- classical in formformally daring
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- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Michael Gregorio
- First published
- 2007
- Pages
- 376
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber, Faber & Faber, Limited, Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur
- Editions
- 10
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780571229307
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“Helena's voice faded away, her figure partly hidden by the heavy drapes of green velvet.”
Michael Gregorio is the pen name of husband and wife Michael G. Jacob (1948- ) and Daniela De Gregorio (1950- )
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