Description
Delightfully quirky and original, it feels like a Golden Age detective novel transposed, wonderfully, into the 21st century.
--Peter James, author of Dead Simple and Dead Man's Time
An unimaginably valuable pink diamond has gone missing and a mysterious Russian residing in Switzerland is suspected of having made off with the treasured jewel. But the investigative duo of Johann Friedrich von Allmen and his Guatemalan butler Carlos are on the case. Their search leads from London to Zurich to a grand hotel on the Baltic coast. Amorous adventures and diverting mishaps litter the path through a world of European high culture and luxury, with hard-knuckle forays into global financial markets and high tech moves to manipulate them. This is the second in a series of fast-paced detective novels devoted to a memorable gentleman thief who, with his trusted sidekick, runs an international detective agency to recover stolen precious objects. Don't miss the first in the series, Allmen and the Dragonflies, also published by New Vessel Press.
Author: Martin Suter
Publisher: New Vessel Press
Published: 03/05/2019
Pages: 203
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.70d
ISBN13: 9781939931634
ISBN10: 1939931630
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Mystery & Detective | Amateur Sleuth
- Fiction | Mystery & Detective | International Crime & Mystery
- Fiction | Crime
About the Author
Martin Suter, born in Zurich in 1948, is a novelist, screenwriter and newspaper columnist. He has written a dozen novels, many of them best-sellers in Europe and translated into 32 languages. Suter lives with his family in Zurich. Two previous novels by Suter, Allmen and the Dragonflies and The Last Weynfeldt, have also been published by New Vessel Press.