![]() ![]() Rashomon-like, the narrative circles around Grove's murder as four different characters give their version of events: Marco da Cola, a visiting Italian physician-or so he would like the reader to believe Jack Prestcott, the son of a traitor who fled the country to avoid execution Dr. Robert Grove is found dead in his Oxford room, hands clenched and face frozen in a rictus of pain, all the signs point to poison. The year is 1663, and the setting is Oxford, England, during the height of Restoration political intrigue. ![]() Hefty, intricately plotted, and intellectually ambitious, Fingerpost has drawn the inevitable comparisons to Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose and, for once, the comparison is apt. An Instance of the Fingerpost is that rarest of all possible literary beasts-a mystery powered as much by ideas as by suspects, autopsies, and smoking guns. ![]()
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