What's Bred in the Bone (eBook)

Mystery Novel

Grant Allen (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2020
283 Seiten
e-artnow (Verlag)
406-406605964-4 (EAN)

Infos

On her mother's side, Elma Clifford, a heroine, comes from a long line of gypsies. She is a clairvoyance who does a wild dancing act with a dangerous feather boa. Following her adventures, while on the exile to the diamond mines of South Africa, we run into identical twins of mysterious parentage, a murderous judge, bad people with secrets from the past and many other perils that follow the snake charmer.

Autor

Grant Allen (1848-1899) was a Canadian science writer and novelist, educated in England. He was a public promoter of evolution in the second half of the nineteenth century. Despite being the son of a minister, Allen was an atheist and a socialist. Allen is considered as one of pioneers in science fiction, and an innovator in the genre of detective fiction.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 27.6.2020
• Verlagsort: Prague
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Krimi / Thriller / Horror ► Historische Kriminalromane
• Schlagworte: Adventure novel • Agatha Christie • Diamond mines • Feather boa • Gypsy clairvoyant • identical twins • In the Heart of the Fire • Murderous judge • mystery parentage • Sherlock Holmes • Snake charmer • South Africa • The Art of Inheriting Secrets • The girl who lived • The Last Thing She Ever Did • The Stillwater Girls • Wall of Silence • When We Believed in Mermaids • Where the Forest Meets the Stars • Wild dancing act