The vault
By: Peter Lovesey.
Publisher: Soho
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 331
Subjects: Diamond, Peter (Fictitious character) -- Fiction; Police -- England -- Bath -- Fiction; Bath (England) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "Bath is a town layered in history: Roman, Medieval, Georgian. Detective Superintendent Peter Diamond is a bluff, old-fashioned policeman. When he is presented with a skeletal hand, dug up in the course of renovations taking place in the vault under the Pump Room, he assumes it is merely of archaeological interest. But when the bones prove to be modern, Diamond must dig further.".

"His inquiries cross those of an visiting American academic. Mary Shelley's Frankenstein was written in Bath, in the house right next to the Pump Room vault. Can that fact have a bearing on a modern murder . . . or murders?"--BOOK JACKET.