by Ross King · Penguin Publishing Group · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780142000809
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«Ex-Libris» is the historical mystery novel by Ross King, published by Penguin Publishing Group in paperback (400 pages, in English).
In the seventeenth century, London bookseller Isaac Inchbold is summoned to a country house to restore a library destroyed by war. He must find a lost manuscript, and his search leads him through a turbulent Europe, in a tale of spies, smugglers, codes, and forgeries that threatens his life.
Originally published in 1998, the 2002 edition with ISBN 9780142000809 was a Book Sense 76 selection.
For readers of historical fiction and mystery who enjoy plots about books, libraries, and manuscripts, with echoes of The Name of the Rose.
Ross King is a Canadian novelist and non-fiction writer. He began his career by writing two works of historical fiction in the 1990s, later turning to non-fiction, and has since written several critically acclaimed and best-selling historical works.
