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The Blood Doctor
By Barbara Vine
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Description
'An outstandingly original book' Sunday Times
The current Lord Nanther experiencing the reform of the House of Lords embarks on a biography of his great-grandfather the first Lord Nanther favoured physician to Queen Victoria expert on blood diseases and particularly the royal disease of haemophilia. What he uncovers begins to horrify him as he realizes that Nanther died a guilty man - carrying a horrific secret to the grave.
Weaving effortlessly between past and present public life and private life The Blood Doctoris a superbly satisfying novel that will be adored by readers of P.D. James Ian Rankin and Scott Turow.
'A magnificent novel' Daily Mail
'Intriguing and absorbing and wholly satisfying' Spectator'Plotted with a jeweller's intricacy and ominous to the final sentence' Sunday Telegraph
Barbara Vine is the pen-name of Ruth Rendell. She has written fifteen novels using this pseudonym including A Fatal Inversion and King Solomon's Carpet which both won the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger Award. Her other books include: A Dark Adapted Eye; The House of Stairs; Gallowglass; Asta's Book; No Night Is Too Long; In the Time of His Prosperity; The Brimstone Wedding; The Chimney Sweeper's Boy; Grasshopper; The Blood Doctor; The Minotaur; The Birthday Present and The Child's Child.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
482
Release Date:
2003-03-27
Publication Date:
2003-03-27
Publisher:
Penguin
Languages:
Original:
English
ISBN10:
0141009160
ISBN13:
9780141009162
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
Weight:
448 g
Height:
111 cm
Width:
181 cm
Thickness:
28 cm
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Very good
Almost no signs of wear. Book pages have no markings, accessories are intact and all other media are in good condition.
€3,59