Eliot Pattison

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1) Bone rattler: a mystery of colonial America

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Pattison, Eliot

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Bone rattler mysteries volume 1

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Scottish prisoner Duncan McCallum, indentured to the Ramsey Company, is troubled by a series of mysterious deaths on the ship carrying him to the New World. When McCallum's close friend Adam Munroe and a professor who was to work as a tutor are added to the list of the dead, McCallum, who has extensive medical training, is enlisted by the captain to investigate. The shipboard mysteries remain unresolved when they arrive in New York, and McCallum's...

2) The lord of death

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Pattison, Eliot

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Shan Tao Yun mysteries volume 6
An Inspector Shan Investigation

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Shan Tao Yun is an exiled Chinese national, a former Beijing Investigator, on parole from the Tibetan gulag to which he had been consigned as punishment. Leading a mule bearing a corpse at the request of a local wisewoman, he comes upon a traffic accident involving a government bus transporting illegal monks to prison. Two women in an approaching vehicle are shot, and one dies in his arms. Shan must find the killer, for his reward will be the life...

3) Prayer of the Dragon

Author

Pattison, Eliot

Series

Shan Tao Yun mysteries volume 5
An Inspector Shan Investigation

Publisher

Soho Press

Pub. Date

2008

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English

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Murders and mysteries abound in a remote Tibetan village in this novel in the Edgar Award–winning series.

Shan Tao Yun, formerly an investigator in Beijing, has been asked to help save a comatose man. The man is believed to be guilty of two murders in which the victims’ arms were removed—but when the detective arrives, he discovers that the suspect is not actually Tibetan, but Navajo.
The man has come...