The Bookman's Promise - Cliff Janeway Series #3
by John Dunning
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0731813022
- ISBN 13
- 9780731813025
- Seller
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Traralgon, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Simon & Schuster, New York, 2005. Paperback. Very Good. Paperback. 469 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Simon & Schuster, New York, 2005. *** CONDITION: This book is in very good condition. More specifically: Covers have no creasing or wear. Spine is uncreased. . Pages are reasonably tanned. This book is an unread copy. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: The quest begins when an old woman, Josephine Gallant, learns that Janeway has recently bought at auction a signed first edition by the legendary nineteenth-century explorer Richard Francis Burton. The book is a true classic, telling of Burton's journey (disguised as a Muslim) to the forbidden holy cities of Mecca and Medina. The Boston auction house was a distinguished and trustworthy firm, but provenance is sometimes murky and Josephine says the book is rightfully hers. She believes that her grandfather, who was living in Baltimore more than eighty years ago, had a fabulous collection of Burton material, including a handwritten journal allegedly detailing Burton's undercover trip deep into the troubled American South in 1860. Josephine remembers the books from her childhood, but everything mysteriously disappeared shortly after her grandfather's death. With little time left in her own life, Josephine begs for Janeway's promise: he must find her grandfather's collection. It's a virtually impossible task, Janeway suspects, as the books will no doubt have been sold and separated over the years, but how can he say no to a dying woman? It seems that her grandfather, Charlie Warren, traveled south with Burton in the spring of 1860, just before the Civil War began. Was Burton a spy for Britain? What happened during the three months in Burton's travels for which there are no records? How did Charlie acquire his unique collection of Burton books? What will the journal, if it exists, reveal? When a friend is murdered, possibly because of a Burton book, Janeway knows he must find the answers. Someone today is willing to kill to keep the secrets of the past, and Janeway's search will lead him east: To Baltimore, to a Pulitzer Prize-winning author with a very stuffed shirt, and to a pair of unorthodox booksellers. It reaches a fiery conclusion at Fort Sumter off the coast of Charleston, South Carolina. What's more, a young lawyer, Erin d'Angelo, and ex-librarian Koko Bujak, have their own reasons for wanting to find the journal. But can Janeway trust them? *** Quantity Available: 4. Category: Fiction; Crime; ISBN: 0731813022. ISBN/EAN: 9780731813025. Inventory No: 10110803.. 9780731813025
Reviews
On Oct 31 2011, Okfine said:
I'm not as satified with Mr. Dunnings works pertaining to the Janeway series,as I was with the first novel.I have all four of them.
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- Seller
- Manyhills Books (AU)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 10110803
- Title
- The Bookman's Promise - Cliff Janeway Series #3
- Author
- John Dunning
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 4
- ISBN 10
- 0731813022
- ISBN 13
- 9780731813025
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2005
- Keywords
- BZDB5 Fiction; The Bookman's Promise - Cliff Janeway Series #3
- Bookseller catalogs
- Crime; Fiction;
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