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Title: THE AMERICAN BOY
By: Andrew Taylor, Kati Nicholl, Alex Jennings
Format: Downloadable audio file

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ISBN 10: 0007218931
ISBN 13: 9780007218936
Publisher: HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS
Pub. date: 15 June, 2005
Edition: Abridged edition
Description: Interweaving real and fictional elements, The American Boy is a major new literary historical crime novel in the tradition of An Instance of the Fingerpost and Possession.Available for the first time as a downloadable audio file.
Synopsis: Interweaving real and fictional elements, The American Boy is a major new literary historical crime novel in the tradition of An Instance of the Fingerpost and Possession.Available for the first time as a downloadable audio file.England 1819: Thomas Shield, a new master at a school just outside London, is tutor to a young American boy and the boy's sensitive best friend, Charles Frant. Drawn to Frant's beautiful, unhappy mother, Thomas becomes caught up in her family's twisted intrigues.Then a brutal crime is committed, with consequences that threaten to destroy Thomas and all that he has come to hold dear. Despite his efforts, Shield is caught up in a deadly tangle of sex, money, murder and lies - a tangle that grips him tighter even as he tries to escape from it. And what of the strange American child, at the heart of these macabre events, yet mysterious - what is the secret of the boy named Edgar Allen Poe?
Publication: UK
Imprint: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Returns: Non-returnable
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