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Available
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Publication
Headline (1992), Edition: New Ed, Paperback, 352 pages
Description
It should have been a wonderful holiday for the four young people traveling to Venice, so it was a shock to find, on arriving in Turin, that their elderly traveling companion has been the victim of robbery with violence. They continue on their way only to find that trouble is following them. They have inadvertently walked off with crucial evidence of a more serious crime & someone desperately wants to retrieve it
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LibraryThing member jjmcgaffey
Wow. The descriptions throughout the story are incredible - all the light and color of Italy, all the richness of the landscape and the people and buildings and... The mystery (or more accurately, adventure - there's not a lot unknown by the middle of the story) is interesting if a trifle unlikely
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- a lot of coincidences making it possible, though they acknowledge the coincidences and thus make them more reasonable. And some major mental and emotional consequences for at least two of the characters. All very Ellis Peters, but this one - possibly because it's a standalone as far as I know, we don't see these people again - the descriptions and the realizations struck me hard. And the villain is so elegantly nasty - an expert at twisting things the way he wants, undone by their (and particularly her) sheer stubbornness. Good story. Of course now I want to read more Peters… Show Less
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Original publication date
1952
Physical description
352 p.; 6.8 inches
ISBN
0747239231 / 9780747239239
DDC/MDS
| Fic Mystery Peters |