by Iain Pears · ISBN 9782714434944
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«Le cercle de la croix» is the historical novel by Iain Pears, published in 1998 by Belfond in paperback (613 pages, in French).
Oxford, 1660s. After the suspicious death of Professor Robert Grove, a young woman is accused of the crime. Four witnesses —a Venetian physician, a royalist's son, a mathematician cryptographer, and an Oxford scholar— give their version of events, in an intrigue of political, intellectual, and religious tension of the 17th century.
Translation from English by Georges-Michel Sarotte. Original title: «An Instance of the Fingerpost».
For readers of historical thrillers and mystery novels set in 17th-century Oxford.
Iain George Pears is an English art historian, novelist and journalist.
