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by Peter Dickinson
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Availability:In StockContributor:Peter DickinsonSeries:James Pibble Mysteries #3Publish date:2015-02-24Pages:236
Language:EnglishPublisher:Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.ISBN-13:9781504005029ISBN-10:1504005023UPC:9781504005029Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Mystery & Detective, Humorous, Action & AdventureBook Topic:TraditionalSize:8.00 x 5.25 x 0.54 inchesWeight:0.6107Product ID:SCV0RR5H57
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-winning scientist was one of the builders of the first atom bomb. Is Francis senile? Paranoid? Was the manuscript really stolen? What'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's up to Pibble to seek out the truth and find his own salvation before the walls of Jericho come tumbling down forever.

The Sinful Stones is the 3rd book in the James Pibble Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.ISBN-13:9781504005029ISBN-10:1504005023UPC:9781504005029Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Mystery & Detective, Humorous, Action & AdventureBook Topic:TraditionalSize:8.00 x 5.25 x 0.54 inchesWeight:0.6107Product ID:SCV0RR5H57
Peter Dickinson was born in Africa but raised and educated in England. From 1952 to 1969 he was on the editorial staff of Punch, and since then earned his living writing fiction of various kinds for children and adults. His books have been published in several languages throughout the world.

The author of twenty-one crime and mystery novels for adults, Dickinson was the first to win the Gold Dagger Award of the Crime Writers' Association for two books running: The Glass-Sided Ants Nest (1968) and The Old English Peepshow (1969). Dickinson was shortlisted nine times for the prestigious Carnegie Medal for children's literature and was the first author to win it twice.

Dickinson served as chairman of the Society of Authors and was a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 2009 for services to literature. Peter Dickinson died on December 16, 2015, at the age of eighty-eight.


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