“Exquisitely intricate.” —The New York Times Book Review

A skeletal hand is unearthed in the vault under the Pump Room in Bath, England, near the site where Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein. Then a skull is excavated. The bones came from different corpses, and one is modern. Detective Superintendent Peter Diamond must solve a series of crimes including murder and forgery, requiring a knowledge of history, nineteenth century art, literature . . . and human nature.
  • ISBN10 1569472564
  • ISBN13 9781569472569
  • Publish Date 1 July 2003 (first published 1 January 1999)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher Soho Press Inc
  • Imprint SohoCrime,US