Beau death [sound recording] / Peter Lovesey ; read by Peter Wickham.
By: Lovesey, Peter.
Contributor(s): Wickham, Peter.
Series: Lovesey, Peter. Peter Diamond: 17.Publisher: Ulverscroft, 2017Description: 12 sound discs (CD) (ca. 13 hr.) : digital ; 12 cm.ISBN: 9781407971612; 1407971611.Subject(s): Nash, Richard, 1674-1761 -- Fiction | Diamond, Peter (Fictitious character) -- Fiction | Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction | Bath (England) -- FictionGenre/Form: Detective and mystery fiction | AudiobooksOnline resources: Click here to access online Read by Peter Wickham.Summary: A wrecking ball crashes through the roof of a terraced cottage in Bath and exposes a skeleton in eighteenth-century clothes. Can these possibly be the remains of Beau Nash, the so-called King of Bath, whose body is said to have ended up in a pauper's grave? Peter Diamond, the city's most experienced detective, is ordered to investigate, but grappling with historical events causes ructions in his team until everyone is diverted by a modern killing during a fireworks display on the Royal Crescent lawn. But Beau Nash refuses to be ignored - and when astonishing new facts emerge about the case, Bath's history is rewritten and mysteries ancient and modern are fused in a devastating climax.Item type | Home library | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reservations | |
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Audiobooks | Chester Lane Library Talking Book | Available | 38055013250378 |
Complete and unabridged.
Soundings CD.
Read by Peter Wickham.
A wrecking ball crashes through the roof of a terraced cottage in Bath and exposes a skeleton in eighteenth-century clothes. Can these possibly be the remains of Beau Nash, the so-called King of Bath, whose body is said to have ended up in a pauper's grave? Peter Diamond, the city's most experienced detective, is ordered to investigate, but grappling with historical events causes ructions in his team until everyone is diverted by a modern killing during a fireworks display on the Royal Crescent lawn. But Beau Nash refuses to be ignored - and when astonishing new facts emerge about the case, Bath's history is rewritten and mysteries ancient and modern are fused in a devastating climax.
Adult.