Belshazzar's Daughter
Author(s): Barbara Nadel
Leonid Meyer is found murdered in his flat in Balat, Istanbul's decrepit Jewish quarter, a swastika daubed on the wall in the old man's blood. But Inspector Cetin Ikmen is quick to eschew the obvious conclusion that this is a racist attack. The evidence leads Ikmen and his elegant young lieutenant, Suleyman, to two people: Robert Cornelius, a teacher observed outside Meyer's flat shortly after the murder, and a retired businessman, Reinhold Smits, known to have had Nazi sympathies. But another link connects these two: a ninety-year-old Russian emigre, Maria Gulcu, a widow who thinks she possesses a secret worth killing for...
Product Information
General Fields
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- : Headline Publishing Group
- : Headline Book Publishing
- : 03 February 2000
- : books
Special Fields
- : Barbara Nadel
- : Paperback
- : 448