The stone wife
By: Peter Lovesey
Series: A Peter Diamond investigation
Publisher: Soho Crime
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9781616955663
Subjects: Police; Fiction; Detective and mystery stories
Description: At a bath auction house, a large slab of carved stone is up for sale. At the height of very competitive bidding, there is a holdup attempt by three masked robbers. They shoot and kill the highest bidder, a professor who has recognized the female figure carved in the stone as Chaucer's Wife of Bath. The masked would-be thieves flee, leaving the stone behind.