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The New York Times bestselling author takes a riveting new direction with this richly textured, multi-layered novel of friendship, murder, revenge, and class conflict set in an upper-crust English school—as enthralling and haunting as Ian McKewan's Atonement and Patricia Highsmith's The Talented Mr. Ripley
Audere, agere, auferre.
To dare, to strive, to conquer.
For generations, elite young men have attended St. Oswald's
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Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Today the figure of Sherlock Holmes towers over detective fiction like a colossus, but it was not always so. Edgar Allan Poe's French detective Dupin, the hero of "The murders in the Rue Morgue," anticipated Holmes's deductive reasoning by more than forty years with his "tales of ratiocination." In "A Study in Scarlet, the first of Holmes's adventures, Doyle acknowledged his debt to Poe and to Émile Gaboriau, whose thief-turned-detective Monsieur...
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