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Interweaving real and fictional elements, The American Boy is a major new literary historical crime novel in the tradition of An Instance of the Fingerpost and Possession. England 1819: Thomas Shield, a new master at a school just outside London, is tutor to a young American boy and the boy's sensitive best friend, Charles Frant. Drawn to Frant's beautiful, unhappy mother, Thomas becomes caught up in her family's twisted intrigues. Then a brutal crime is committed, with consequences that threaten to destroy Thomas and all that he has come to hold dear. Despite his efforts, Shield is caught up in a deadly tangle of sex, money, murder and lies - a tangle that grips him tighter even as he tries to escape from it. And what of the strange American child, at the heart of these macabre events, yet mysterious - what is the secret of the boy named Edgar Allen Poe? |
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| Author(s) : Andrew Taylor & Derek Jacobi & Alex Jennings | Format : Audio cassette |
| ISBN-10 : 0007206836 | ISBN-13 : 9780007206834 |
| RRP : £13.99 | Best available price : £ / $ |
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Country Publication : United Kingdom
Publication Date : 17/01/2005
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers