The sinful stones
Subtitle: a James Pibble mystery
By: Peter Dickinson
Publisher: Open Road Integrated Media
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781504003674; 9781504005029
Copyright date: 1970
Subjects: Police; Fiction; Murder; Investigation; FICTION; Mystery & Detective; Traditional British; General
Description: Scotland Yard detective James Pibble travels to a remote Scottish island to free an old man from a dangerous cult of self-proclaimed saints and saviors in this mystery by CWA Gold Dagger winner Peter Dickinson Ninety-two-year-old Sir Francis Francis summons James Pibble to an isolated island in the Hebrides to find out who pilfered the memoirs he was in the process of writing. The Nobel Prize & ndash;winning scientist was one of the builders of the first atom bomb. Is Francis senile? Paranoid? Was the manuscript really stolen? What & rsquo;s the real reason he sent for Pibble? As Pibble tries to untangle the mystery of the missing document, he starts to suspect that the devout millenarian religious sect inhabiting the island may be less virtuous than it seems; the community is strangely hell-bent on preventing Francis from ever leaving. It & rsquo;s up to Pibble to seek out the truth and find his own salvation before the walls of Jericho come tumbling down forever.
Table of contents: title: Cover; Title page; Copyright; Geographical Note; August 1989; September 1989; October 1989; October 1989; November 1989; November 1989; January 1990; About the Author.