Death of a Pilgrim: 8 (Lord Francis Powerscourt) - Softcover

Dickinson, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1849010978 ISBN 13: 9781849010979

Publisher: Constable & Robinson, 2010

Synopsis

1905. A young man called James Delaney is dying in a New York hospital. The doctors and the nuns cannot save him. When his life is spared his tycoon father takes it as a miracle and organizes a family pilgrimage to the resting place of the boy's name saint, Saint James the Greater in Santiago de Compostela in Spain, the greatest pilgrimage site of the Middle Ages. The first modern-day pilgrim is killed in Le Puy en Velay in Southern France and Powerscourt is summoned to investigate. The pilgrims' progress across the holy sites is punctuated by further bizarre deaths. After his own life is put in terrible danger Powerscourt finally solves the murders on the day of the Bull Run at Pamplona in Southern Spain where young men race down the cobbled streets pursued by the bulls. The careless are gored to death, but it is up to Powerscourt to beware of the horns and other hidden dangers to finally resolve the Deaths of the Pilgrims.

About this title

Review:

'This is detective fiction in the grand style; the characters and the plot soar upwards and carry us in their wake. Powerscourt's debut in this intoxicating book is the start of a gilded life in the archives of crime.' (James Naughtie)

Dickinson textures his canvas with historical detail as thick as the oil paint on one of his favourite paintings by Turner. (Kirkus Reviews)

A cracking yarn, beguilingly real from start to finish... you have to pinch yourself to remind you that it is fiction - or is it? (Peter Snow)

Book Description:

When the first modern-day pilgrim is killed in Le Puy en Velay in Southern France, Lord Francis Powerscourt is summoned to investigate.

About this edition

• Publisher: Constable & Robinson
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1849010978
• ISBN 13: 9781849010979
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 335