The Nature of Rare Things - Hardcover

Derek Wilson

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0786275812 ISBN 13: 9780786275816

Publisher: Chivers / Thorndike Press, 2005

Synopsis

At a seance in a Cambridge backstreet, Dr. Nathaniel Gye is commissioned by a dead man to find his killer. Nathaniel dismisses the incident as a clumsy fraud. Then his wife disappears - also foretold by the unquiet spirit - and Nathaniel's search for answers plunges him into a web of deception.

About this title

About the Author:

After graduating from Cambridge, Derek Wilson spent several years travelling and teaching before becoming a full-time writer, broadcaster and author of historical non-fiction. As well as many non-fiction publications, he has written several fictional mysteries, which include the Tim Lacy and Nathaniel Gye series.

From Booklist:

Dr. Nathaniel Gye, a lecturer in parapsychology at Cambridge, is a highly respected academic who helps police investigate the earthly crimes of theft and murder. Bob Gomer, a former employee of the college who is now a security guard accused of stealing a valuable Renaissance painting, commits suicide. Out of sympathy for Bob's widow, a skeptical Nat attends a seance where a medium claims to be channeling Bob. "Bob" tells Nat that he neither stole the painting nor committed suicide--and that Nat's wife, Kathryn, should by no means go to Italy. Unfortunately, Kathryn is already en route to attend a seminar on the Brownings, and Nat can't get hold of her. Panic outweighs doubts about the medium, and he rushes to Italy to find Kathryn and investigate the missing painting. The plot turns out to be a bit simplistic, but it is enlivened by colorful scenes of Florence and nice interaction between the characters--not to mention the fact that down-to-earth Nat makes an out-of-this-world protagonist. Jenny McLarin
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About this edition

• Publisher: Chivers / Thorndike Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0786275812
• ISBN 13: 9780786275816
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1