The Pindar diamond
By: Katie Hickman
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781408809860
Subjects: Social life and customs; Courts and courtiers; Court and courtiers; Fiction; Diamonds; Gambling; Manners and customs; History
Description: Venice, 1604. When rumours of a spectacularly rare and priceless diamond begin to circulate amongst the gamblers and courtesans of the Venetian demi-monde, the Levant Company merchant, Paul Pindar, becomes convinced that the jewel is somehow linked to the fate of his former love, Celia Lamprey.
Notes: Originally published: 2010.