num_pages: 191
description: ƒ An imaginative thriller set in the mythical Arab kingdom of Q'Kut, involving an English psycholinguist who is researching amimal communication, a highjacked airliner, a murder, and the only witness to the crime, a chimpanzee. If you like your mysteries cerebral and challenging, this is for you. Dust jacket rubbed, small tears at head of spine. 191 pages. cloth, dust jacket.. small 8vo..
language: English
title: The Poison Oracle
titlecomplete: The Poison Oracle
genres: Fiction, British Literature, Mystery
ratings_count: 101
places: United Arab Emirates
awards: awardedAt: 126259200000
name: CWA Silver Dagger
publisher: Hodder and Stoughton