An Instance of the Fingerpost (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 4 days | |Short Description for An Instance of the Fingerpost An intellectual thriller set in the Oxford of the 1660s, a time of great ferment - intellectual, religious and political. The action takes place around the suspicious death of Robert Grove, a Fellow of New College.
Full description- Publisher: VINTAGE
- Published: 14 September 1998
- Format: Paperback 704 pages
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- Categories: Contemporary Fiction | Crime | Thrillers | Adventure
- ISBN 13: 9780099751816 ISBN 10: 009975181X
- Sales rank: 68,459
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Full description for An Instance of the Fingerpost
Set in Oxford in the 1660s - a time and place of great intellectual, religious, scientific and political ferment - this remarkable novel centres around a young woman, Sarah Blundy, who stands accused of the murder of Robert Grove, a fellow of New College. Four witnesses describe the events surrounding his death: Marco da Cola, a Venetian Catholic intent on claiming credit for the invention of blood transfusion; Jack Prescott, the son of a supposed traitor to the Royalist cause, determined to vindicate his father; John Wallis, chief cryptographer to both Cromwell and Charles II, a mathematician, theologian and master spy; and Anthony Wood, the famous Oxford antiquary. Each one tells their version of what happened but only one reveals the extraordinary truth. Brilliantly written, utterly convincing, gripping from the first page to the last, An Instance of the Fingerpost is a magnificent tour de force.
