{"product_id":"an-instance-of-the-fingerpost-9781573227957","title":"An Instance of the Fingerpost","description":"A national bestseller and one of the New York Public Library's Books to Remember, \u003ci\u003eAn Instance of the Fingerpost\u003c\/i\u003e is a thrilling historical mystery from Iain Pears. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"It is 1663, and England is wracked with intrigue and civil strife. When an Oxford don is murdered, it seems at first that the incident can have nothing to do with great matters of church and state....Yet, little is as it seems in this gripping novel, which dramatizes the ways in which witnesses can see the same events yet remember them falsely. Each of four narrators--a Venetian medical student, a young man intent on proving his late father innocent of treason, a cryptographer, and an archivist--fingers a different culprit...an erudite and entertaining tour de force.\" --\u003ci\u003ePeople\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIain Pears's \u003ci\u003eThe Dream of Scipio\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Portrait\u003c\/i\u003e are also available from Riverhead Books.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIain Pears was born in 1955. Educated at Wadham College, Oxford, he has worked as a journalist, an art historian, and a television consultant in England, France, Italy, and the United States. He is the author of seven highly praised detective novels, a book of art history, and countless articles on artistic, financial, and historical subjects, as well as the international bestseller \u003ci\u003eAn Instance of the Fingerpost\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in Oxford, England.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50642466930962,"sku":"9781573227957","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a37198d8-a133-40b1-8afb-563f3895be06.jpg?v=1733067211","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/an-instance-of-the-fingerpost-9781573227957","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}