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Old Bones

by Aaron Elkins · 1987

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This winner of the 1987 Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Mystery of the Year is back in print. When an old skeleton is found beneath the floor of the du Rocher estate, American "skeleton detective" Dr. Gideon Oliver is called in to uncover the secrets behind the bones.

Genre
mysterymysteryMore like thisLess of thiscozy mysterycozy mysteryMore like thisLess of thiscrimecrimeMore like thisLess of thisdetectivedetectiveMore like thisLess of this
Themes
archaeologyarchaeologyMore like thisLess of this
Setting
1980s1980sMore like thisLess of thisFranceFranceMore like thisLess of this
Subject
anthropologyanthropologyMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 272 pages

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