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The Tower Of Silence
ISBN
9789350296387
Genre
Algemeen
Verschenen
30-04-2013
Bindwijze
Ebook EPUB
Taal
Engels
Uitgever
HarperCollins
Auteur(s)
Gyan Prakash

The Tower Of Silence

Gyan Prakash
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€8,99
  • A
  • long-lost
  • Sexton
  • Blake
  • mystery,
  • 1920s
  • detective
  • fiction
  • at
  • its
  • best
  • Historian
  • Gyan
  • Prakash
  • of
  • Princeton
  • University
  • stumbled
  • upon
  • part
  • of
  • the
  • unpublished
  • manuscript
  • of
  • Tower
  • of
  • Silence
  • by
  • Phiroshaw
  • Jamsetjee
  • Chevalier
  • (or
  • Chaiwala,
  • as
  • he
  • called
  • himself)
  • in
  • the
  • British
  • Library.
  • After
  • scouring
  • several
  • Mumbai
  • libraries,
  • he
  • found
  • the
  • missing
  • pages.
  • It
  • is
  • a
  • thrilling
  • tale
  • that
  • begins
  • on
  • a
  • blistering
  • April
  • afternoon
  • in
  • Poona
  • with
  • the
  • click
  • of
  • a
  • camera
  • shutter.
  • An
  • aerial
  • photograph
  • is
  • taken
  • from
  • a
  • small
  • aircraft
  • flying
  • directly
  • over
  • the
  • Tower
  • of
  • Silence.
  • The
  • Zorastrian
  • community
  • is
  • thrown
  • into
  • turmoil
  • and
  • horrified
  • grief
  • at
  • this
  • heinous
  • act.
  • Beram,
  • a
  • suave
  • wealthy
  • man
  • who
  • drives
  • around
  • in
  • a
  • Rolls
  • Royce
  • but
  • is
  • a
  • devout
  • Parsi,
  • decides
  • to
  • exact
  • revenge.
  • Thus
  • begins
  • a
  • sensational
  • cat-and-mouse
  • game
  • between
  • Beram
  • and
  • Sexton
  • Blake,
  • England's
  • most
  • famous detective.
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