An Instance of the Fingerpost

Author: Iain Pears

Format: Paperback

Explore the murky world of 17th-century Oxford in this iconic historical thriller

Oxford, 1660s. A scholar is dead, a woman stands accused, and four men tell their versions of the truth.

Each testimony contradicts the last - and only one reveals what truly happened.

Pears' sweeping novel combines intellectual intrigue with page-turning mystery. An Instance of the Fingerpost is a triumph of storytelling: erudite, immersive and utterly gripping.

'A novel that combines the simple pleasures of Agatha Christie with the intellectual subtlety of Umberto Eco' — The Times

About the Author

Iain Pears was born in 1955. He is the author of seven detective novels, a book of art history and countless articles on artistic, financial and historical subjects, and five novels, An Instance of the Fingerpost, The Dream of Scipio, The Portrait, Stone's Fall and Arcadia.

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