A Christmas garland : a novel
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- ISBN: 0345530748 (hc.)
- ISBN: 9780345530745 (hc.)
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Physical Description:
194 p. 20 cm.
print - Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Ballantine Books, c2012.
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Subject: | Trials (Murder) -- Fiction Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction British -- India -- Fiction Police -- England -- Fiction |
Genre: | Christmas stories. Historical fiction. Mystery fiction. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Alert Bay Public Library.
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Alert Bay Public Library | AF PER (Text) | 35125000104962 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Summary:
The year is 1857, soon after the tragic Siege of Cawnpore. In the British garrison, a guard is killed and an Indian prisoner escapes, which leads to yet more British deaths. Cries for revenge are overwhelming. Despite no witnesses and no evidence against him, a luckless British medical orderly named John Tallis is arrested as an accomplice simply because he was the only soldier unaccounted for when these baffling crimes were committed. Though chosen to defend Tallis, young Lieutenant Victor Narraway is not encouraged to try very hard. Narraway's superiors merely want a show trial. But inspired by a soldier's widow and her children, and by his own stubborn faith in justice, Narraway searches for the truth. In an alien world haunted by memories of massacre, he is the accused man's only hope.