11 rows · "The Vault" by Peter Lovesey is a clever little book about a literary mystery. Joe Dougan, an /5(). The sixth mystery book in the award-winning Peter Diamond series, from Peter Lovesey. When a severed hand from the vault of Bath Abbey Churchyard arrives on Peter Diamond's desk, he is delighted to hear that, far from being a medieval relic, it is from the s. But the vault is part of the house where Mary Shelley's Frankenstein was written, and a fanatical American professor is thwarting their investigation. /5(). The 6th in the Peter Diamond series, this one set in and near the vault under the Bath Abbey churchyard, where a hand has been found in concrete. Mary Shelley wrote most of Frankenstein while living in Bath, and this novel imagines the discovery in modern day Bath of her copy of Milton's poems as well as her writing desk and sketchpad.4/5.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY SEP 1, Set in s Bath, England (to call the setting modern-day would be misleading, given the moldy ambiance), Lovesey's latest police proceduralDfeaturing his best-known "copper," the oversized and grumpy Peter DiamondDdeftly blends Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, William Blake and '60's hard-rock music. The Vault Peter Lovesey ISBN: Published: September Pricing. Paperback $ More books in this series. More books by Peter Lovesey. Peter Lovesey Chichester, England. View More. Description. A skeletal hand is unearthed in the vault under the Pump Room in Bath, England, near the site where Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein. The Vault by Peter Lovesey starting at $ The Vault has 9 available editions to buy at Half Price Books Marketplace.
Book Summary. When a skeletal hand turns up in the vault of the Pump Room, followed by the excavation of a skull, Diamond is called upon to solve a series of crimes. Bath is a town layered with history, from Roman times. Peter Lovesey is the author of more than thirty highly praised mystery novels. He has been. A Peter Diamond mystery. A severed hand arrives on the desk of Peter Diamond. He is unexcited. These are old bones from a vault below Bath Abbey Churchyard. But a monstrous mystery with antique connections is beginning. The vault was once part of the house where Frankenstein was written. And the hand is not mediaeval, as everyone assumed.
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