The City & The City Author Surname:Miéville

The City & The City Author Surname:MiévilleA brilliantly original masterpiece of speculative fiction, fusing weird fiction with the police procedural genre, from one of the world's most decorated SF writers.

and according to certain scholars

which hides unfathomable treasure and a secret that the kings of France have been handing down since the time of Julius Caesar

Offering a bounty of lost or forgotten strange and Gothic tales set in Cornwall

Could this be his killer

he's joined them

Melchor Marín

she insists on accompanying him - and even tries to teach him a thing or two about books

the inventor

This new nemesis is murdering agents who got in the way of their power hungry plans and the aging quartet of killers is next

and he's convinced Alice's disappearance is related to an unsolved murder that has haunted him for the last three years

Giulia Tofana dispenses her deadly potion to free the downtrodden women of Rome from their abusive husbands

its only recent edition having been a short-run collector's item