The sultan's seal
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The sultan's seal
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The work The sultan's seal represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in San Francisco Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.
- Label
- The sultan's seal
- Statement of responsibility
- Jenny White
- Subject
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- Detective and mystery fiction
- Detective and mystery fiction
- Detective and mystery stories
- Electronic books
- Fiction
- Governesses -- Crimes against -- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Istanbul (Turkey) -- Fiction
- British -- Turkey -- Fiction
- Police magistrates -- Fiction
- Young women -- Crimes against -- Fiction
- Mystery fiction
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Rich in sensuous detail, this first novel brilliantly captures the political and social upheavals of the waning Ottoman Empire. The naked body of a young Englishwoman washes up in Istanbul wearing a pendant inscribed with the seal of the deposed sultan. The death resembles the murder by strangulation of another English governess, a crime that was never solved. Kamil Pasha, a magistrate in the new secular courts, sets out to find the killer, but his dispassionate belief in science and modernity is shaken by betrayal and widening danger. In a lush, mystical voice, a young Muslim woman, Jaanan, recounts her own relationships with one of the dead women and her suspected killer. Were these political murders involving the palace or crimes of personal passion? An absorbing tale that transports the reader to nineteenth-century Turkey, this novel is also a lyrical meditation on the contradictory desires of the human soul
- Cataloging source
- TEFOD
- Dewey number
- 813.6
- Illustrations
- maps
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3623.H5763
- LC item number
- S85 2006eb
- Literary form
- fiction
- Nature of contents
- dictionaries
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