Anarchy and Old Dogs - Rilegato

Cotterill, Colin

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ISBN 10: 156947463X ISBN 13: 9781569474631

Casa editrice: Soho Crime, 2007

Riassunto

Praise for the Dr. Siri Paiboun series:

“A hero unlike any other.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer

“Magically sublime.”—Entertainment Weekly

A blind retired dentist has been run down by a logging truck on the street in Vientiane just opposite the post office. His body is duly delivered to the morgue of Dr. Siri Paiboun, the official and only coroner of Laos. At the age of seventy-four, Dr. Siri is too old to be in awe of the new communist bureaucrats for whom he now works. He identifies the corpse, helped by the letter in the man’s pocket. But first he must decipher it; it is written in code and invisible ink. The dentist’s widow explains that the enigmatic letters and numbers describe chess moves, but they are unlike any chess symbols Siri has previously encountered. With the help of his old friend, Civilai, now a senior member of the Laos politburo; Nurse Dtui (“Fatty”); Phosy, a police officer; and Aunt Bpoo, a transvestite fortune-teller, Dr. Siri solves the mystery of the note and foils a plot to overthrow the government of Laos.

Colin Cotterill is the author of The Coroner’s Lunch, Thirty-Three Teeth, and Disco for the Departed, all featuring Dr. Siri Paiboun. He lives in Chiang Mai, Thailand. He received the Dilys Award for Thirty-Three Teeth from the Independent Mystery Book-sellers Association.

For more information, visit www.colincotterill.com 

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L'autore:

Colin Cotterill, author of six previous books in the Dr Siri Paiboun series, lives in Chumphon, Thailand with his wife. His books have been Book Sense Picks, and he won the Dilys Award for Thirty-Three Teeth as well as a Crime Writers' Association Library Dagger.

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Book by Cotterill Colin

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Soho Crime
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 156947463X
• ISBN 13: 9781569474631
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 272