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An instance of the fingerpost

Multidimensional tale of politics and passion, science and sex, religion, lust, revenge and murder in 17th century Oxford.

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  • "Multidimensional tale of politics and passion, science and sex, religion, lust, revenge and murder in 17th century Oxford."@en
  • "In England of the 1660s, when a young woman is accused of the murder of a New College fellow who has been found dead under mysterious circumstances, four extremely diverse witnesses give their accounts of the events."@en
  • ""Set in Oxford in the 1660s - a time and place of great intellectual, scientific, religions 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 inveterate plotter; 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."
  • "When a fellow of New College in seventeenth-century Oxford is found dead and a young woman is accused of his murder, four witnesses, each with his own agenda, tell what they saw, but only one speaks the truth."@en
  • "A novel on the way we interpret events to suit our purpose. The protagonists are four people giving evidence in a murder in 17th century England. One blames the crime on too much authority, another on the lack of it. A look at the controversies of the day, from medical experiments to religious freethinking."@en
  • "A novel on the way we interpret events to suit our purpose. The protagonists are four people giving evidence in a murder in 17th century England. One blames the crime on too much authority, another on the lack of it. A look at the controversies of the day, from medical experiments to religious freethinking."
  • "AN ABSORBING, MACABRE TALE OF MURDER, POLITICS, FAITH AND BETRAYAL."
  • "Robert Grove, a fellow at New College, Oxford in the turbulent 1660s, is found dead in mysterious circumstances, prompting the speculations of four witnesses who each offer a different version of events surrounding the murder.--"

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  • "Detective and mystery fiction"@en
  • "History"
  • "History"@en
  • "Historical fiction"@en
  • "Historical fiction"
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Romans (teksten)"
  • "Mystery fiction"
  • "Mystery fiction"@en
  • "Novels"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Tekstuitgave"
  • "Detective and mystery stories"@en

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  • "An INSTANCE OF THE FINGERPOST"
  • "An instance of the fingerpost"
  • "An instance of the fingerpost"@en

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