The Palace Tiger
Subtitle: A Detective Joe Sandilands Mystery
Publisher: Carroll & Graf
Published: July 10, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780786715725
Subjects: Mystery/Suspense; English Mystery & Suspense Fiction; Fiction; Fiction - Mystery/ Detective; Mystery & Detective - Traditional British; Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Traditional British; Historical - General; Mystery & Detective - General
First sentence: Putli's mother, her hands on her hips, straightened painfully, glad after two hours to break the rhythmic coordination of arm and shoulder, glad to stand back and count the mounting bundles of tall cut grass that had fallen to the steady swish of her sickle.