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Book, 2011
Current format, Book, 2011, Ballantine books trade paperback edition, Available .
Book, 2011
Current format, Book, 2011, Ballantine books trade paperback edition, Available . Offered in 0 more formats
The year is 1861. The American Civil War has just begun, and London arms dealer Daniel Alberton is becoming a very wealthy man. His quiet dinner party seems remote indeed from the passions rending America. Yet investigator Monk and his bride, Hester, sense growing tensions and barely concealed violence. For two of the guests are Americans, each vying to buy Alberton's armaments. Soon Monk and Hester's forebodings are fulfilled as one member of the party is brutally murdered and two others disappear--along with Alberton's entire inventory of weapons.
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