The Blood Doctor  -  Ruth Rendell

KORTE INHOUD

Barbara Vine's new novel is about blood - blood in its metaphysical sense as the conductor of an inherited title and blood in its physical sense as the transmitter of disease. The current Lord Nanther, experiencing the reform of the House of Lords, embarks on a biography of his great-grandfather, the first Lord Nanther, favoured physician to Queen Victoria, expert on blood diseases and particularly the royal disease of haemophilia. What he uncovers begins to horrify him as he realizes that Nanther died a gu...
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2003 Uitgever: Penguin 480 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0141009160 ISBN-13: 9780141009162