Death of a Pilgrim

Death of a Pilgrim
Author :
Publisher : C & R Crime
Total Pages : 328
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781780334134
ISBN-13 : 1780334133
Rating : 4/5 (133 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Death of a Pilgrim by : David Dickinson

Download or read book Death of a Pilgrim written by David Dickinson and published by C & R Crime. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1905. A young man called James Delaney is dying in a New York hospital. The doctors and the nuns cannot save him. When his life is spared his tycoon father takes it as a miracle and organizes a family pilgrimage to the resting place of the boy's name saint, Saint James the Greater in Santiago de Compostela in Spain, the greatest pilgrimage site of the Middle Ages. The first modern-day pilgrim is killed in Le Puy en Velay in Southern France and Powerscourt is summoned to investigate. The pilgrims' progress across the holy sites is punctuated by further bizarre deaths. After his own life is put in terrible danger Powerscourt finally solves the murders on the day of the Bull Run at Pamplona in Southern Spain where young men race down the cobbled streets pursued by the bulls. The careless are gored to death, but it is up to Powerscourt to beware of the horns and other hidden dangers to finally resolve the Deaths of the Pilgrims.


Death of a Pilgrim Related Books

Death of a Pilgrim
Language: en
Pages: 328
Authors: David Dickinson
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-09-01 - Publisher: C & R Crime

GET EBOOK

1905. A young man called James Delaney is dying in a New York hospital. The doctors and the nuns cannot save him. When his life is spared his tycoon father take
On the Death of the Pilgrim: The Postcolonial Hermeneutics of Jarava Lal Mehta
Language: en
Pages: 221
Authors: Thomas B Ellis
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-11-28 - Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

GET EBOOK

This searching examination of the life and philosophy of the twentieth-century Indian intellectual Jarava Lal Mehta details, among other things, his engagement
I Am Pilgrim
Language: en
Pages: 800
Authors: Terry Hayes
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-07-21 - Publisher: Simon and Schuster

GET EBOOK

In a seedy hotel near Ground Zero, a woman lies face down in a pool of acid, features melted of her face, teeth missing, fingerprints gone. The room has been sp
Peace Pilgrim
Language: en
Pages: 228
Authors: Peace Pilgrim
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 1994 - Publisher: Friends of Peace PIlgrim

GET EBOOK

Peace Pilgrim was born Mildred Lisette Norman to Ernest and Josephine Norman in 1908 on a poultry farm in Egg Harbor City, New Jersey. Her father was a carpente
Slaughterhouse-Five
Language: en
Pages: 285
Authors: Kurt Vonnegut
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999-01-12 - Publisher: Dial Press Trade Paperback

GET EBOOK

Kurt Vonnegut’s masterpiece, Slaughterhouse-Five is “a desperate, painfully honest attempt to confront the monstrous crimes of the twentieth century” (Tim