The geographer's library
By: Jon Fasman
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
Published: 2005
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 374
ISBN-13: 9780241143025; 9780241143049
Subjects: Journalists; Fiction; Murder; Investigation; College teachers
Description: A twelfth-century Sicilian cat burglar snatches a sack of artefacts from the king's geographer's library, and the tools and talismans of transmutation and eternal life are soon scattered all over the world. The bizarre and dangerous circumstances under which these alchemical objects change hands are testament to their extraordinary value, but it is not until nine hundred years later that a young reporter on a local paper, Paul Tomm, stumbles upon evidence that someone is collecting them again. Investigating the suspicious death of a local professor, Tomm finds the dead man's heavily fortified office stuffed with books on alchemy and clues that the man's life was as suspicious as his death.