by David Liss · 11 X 17 · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789896371081
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«A Conspiração de Papel» is the historical mystery novel by David Liss, published by 11 X 17 in paperback (656 pages, in Portuguese).
In eighteenth-century London, Benjamin Weaver, a Portuguese Jew, detective, swordsman and former boxer, investigates the murder of his father, a wealthy stock investor. Descending into the London underworld, among brothels, breweries, prisons and gambling dens, he uncovers a conspiracy that threatens all of England.
First instalment of the Benjamin Weaver series, translated into Portuguese by Sofia Moreiras. Winner of the Edgar Allan Poe Award for best first novel.
Recommended for readers of historical and mystery fiction set in eighteenth-century London.
David Liss is an American writer of novels, essays and short fiction; more recently working also in comic books. He was born in New Jersey and grew up in South Florida. Liss received his BA degree from Syracuse University, an MA from Georgia State University and his M. Phil from Columbia University. He left his post-graduate studies of 18th Century British literature and unfinished dissertation to write full-time. "If things had not worked out with fiction, I probably would have kept to my graduate school career track and sought a job as a literature professor," he said. A full-time writer since 2010, Liss lives in San Antonio, Texas, with his wife and children.
