Products specifications
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Author
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Barbara Nadel |
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Pub Date
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03/02/2000 |
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Binding
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Paperback / softback |
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Pages
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448 |
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Country
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United Kingdom |
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Dewey
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823.914 |
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GBPPrice
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9.99 |
Leonid Meyer is found murdered in his flat in Balat, Istanbul's decrepit Jewish quarter, a swastika daubed on the wall in the old man's blood. But Inspector Cetin Ikmen is quick to eschew the obvious conclusion that this is a racist attack. The evidence leads Ikmen and his young lieutenant, Suleyman, to two people: Robert Cornelius, a teacher observed outside Meyer's flat shortly after the murder, and a retired businessman, Reinhold Smits, known to have had Nazi sympathies. But another link connects these two: a ninety-year-old Russian emigre, Maria Gulcu, a widow who thinks she possesses a secret worth killing for...
