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Chargement... Deadly Shoalspar Joan Druett
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Continuing my mad dash through the Wiki Coffin mysteries, this is number four (one more to go, which I've already started). Like the previous one, much of this one takes place on land, in southern Patagonia. Gauchos play a role, as do potential revolutionaries. The mystery starts with a ship captain who has a had a ship stolen from him. This leads to the discovery of a body buried in a salt source, with its skull picked over by vultures, and eventually another murder. What makes this series for me is a combination of Wiki's character and the very well researched settings. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Appartient à la sérieWiki Coffin Mysteries (book 4)
Wiki Coffin plays many parts on the U.S. Exploring Expedition---sailor, linguist, navigator, and, as half-Maori, cultural go-between. But then the brig "Swallow" reaches the coast of Patagonia, an area infamous for its rough gauchos and revolutionary spirit, and he must take on his other role, that of agent of U.S. law and order. A New England whaler shows up, desperate to find the devious trader who has cheated him of a thousand dollars and a schooner. Wiki is assigned to find the missing ship, only to follow a trail of clues to a dead body, half-buried in a hill of salt, its skull picked clean by vultures. The adventure unravels in the impoverished village of El Carmen de Patagones, where the threat of French invasion is imminent, and business is at a standstill under the orders of General de Rosas, the tyrant of Buenos Aires. Wiki must risk both life and reputation in pursuit of a vicious and determined killer who has set his sights on another target: the U.S. Exploring Expedition itself. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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