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The Dragon Scroll

Autor I. J. Parker
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 28 iun 2005
In an adventure filled with highway bandits, unscrupulous politicians, and renegade monks, The Dragon Scroll introduces readers to the lively world of eleventh-century Japan and an irrepressible hero—Sugawara Akitada. On his first official assignment, Akitada—an impoverished nobleman and earnest young government clerk in the Ministry of Justice—is sent from the capital city on a nearly impossible mission to the distant province of Kazusa to discover why tax convoys are disappearing. In the politically murky world of the Japanese court, he has been set up to fail. Against the odds, the ever-resourceful Akitada, his elderly servant Seimei, and his impudent bodyguard Tora are determined to fulfill their mission and discover the truth in a town of dangerous secrets.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780143035329
ISBN-10: 0143035320
Pagini: 354
Ilustrații: 1 b/w line drawing
Dimensiuni: 129 x 197 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.38 kg
Editura: Penguin Publishing Group

Recenzii

"Shamus-winner Parker's impressive...Sugawara Akitada mystery deftly pulls the reader into the world of 11th-century Japan. Parker manages the impressive feat of presenting a classic whodunit in an exotic and unfamiliar setting." —Publishers Weekly

Notă biografică

I. J. Parker, winner of the Shamus Award for "Akitada’s First Case," a short story published in 1999, lives in Virginia Beach, Virginia. She writes regularly for Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine.

Descriere

In an adventure filled with highway bandits, unscrupulous politicians, and renegade monks, this volume introduces readers to the lively world of 11th century Japan and an irrepressible hero. Against the odds, the ever-resourceful Akitada, his elderly servant Seimei, and his impudent bodyguard Tora are determined to fulfill their mission and discover the truth in a town of dangerous secrets.