Bibliograph

The stone wife, peter diamond #14, Peter Lovesey

Type

Label

The stone wife, peter diamond #14, Peter Lovesey

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

unknown

Main title

The stone wife

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

883267072

Responsibility statement

Peter Lovesey

Series statement

Peter Diamond mystery, 14

Sub title

peter diamond #14

Summary

At a Bath auction house, a large slab of carved stone is up for sale. At the height of what turns into very competitive bidding, there is a hold-up attempt by three masked raiders, who are trying to steal the stone. They shoot and kill the highest bidder, a professor who has recognized the female figure carved in the stone as Chaucer's Wife of Bath. The masked would-be thieves flee, leaving the stone behind. Peter Diamond and his team are assigned to investigate, and the stone is moved into Diamond's office so he can research its origins. The carving causes such difficulties that he starts to think it has jinxed him. Meanwhile, as Diamond's leads take him to Chaucer's house in Somerset, his intrepid colleague Ingeborg goes undercover to try to track down the source of the fatal handgun used in the murder

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