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The Poison Oracle by Peter Dickinson (Paperback / softback, 2013)

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-I think Peter Dickinson is hands down the best stylist as a writer and the most interesting storyteller in my genre.---Sara Paretsky, author of Breakdown -Dickinson's crime vels are simply like other; sophisticated, erudite, unexpected, intricate, English and deeply, wonderfully peculiar.- --Christopher Fowler, author of The Memory of Blood Praise for The Poison Oracle -I have idea if any of this talk and ac-tion is authentic, and I don't care. Either way it's marvellous.---Rex Stout -Intelligent, elegantly written . . . a thoroughly enjoyable read.---Sunday Times Praise for Peter Dickinson's mysteries: -He is the true original, a superb writer who revitalises the traditions of the mystery genre . . . incapable of writing a trite or inelegant sentence . . . a mas-ter.---P. D. James -Consummate storytelling skill.---Peter Lovesey Take a medieval Arab kingdom, add a ruler who wants to update the kingdom's educational facilities, include an English research psycholinguist (an Oxford classmate of the ruler) invited to pursue his work on animal communication, and then add a touch of chaos in Dinah, a chimpanzee who has begun to learn to form coherent sentences with plastic symbols. When a murder is committed in the oil-rich marshes, Dinah is the only witness, and Morris has to go into the marshes to dis-cover the truth. The Poison Oracle is a vel of its time that exposes in the everyday language people use humanity's thinking and unthinking cruelties to one ather and to the animals with whom we share this earth. Peter Dickinson has twice received the Crime Writers' Association's Gold Dagger. His vels include Death of a Unicorn, A Summer in the Twenties, and many more. He lives in England and is married to the velist Robin McKinley.

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Publisher
Big Mouth House, Small Beer Press
ISBN-10
1618730657
ISBN-13
9781618730657
eBay Product ID (ePID)
190077538

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Author
Peter Dickinson
Format
Paperback / Softback, Trade Paperback (US) ,Unsewn / Adhesive Bound
Language
English
Topic
Crime, Thriller & Adventure

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Place of Publication
Northampton
Author Biography
Peter Dickinson: Peter Dickinson OBE has twice received the Crime Writers' Association's Gold Dagger as well as the Guardian Award and Whitbread Prize. His latest book is Earth and Air: Tales of Elemental Spirits (Big Mouth House). He lives in England and is married to the novelist Robin McKinley.
Date of Publication
27/06/2013
Country of Publication
United States

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