The Camel Driver (A Harry Przewalski Novel, Band 3) - Softcover

Krishtalka, Leonard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1941237320 ISBN 13: 9781941237328

Verlag: Anamcara Press LLC, 2020

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Hard-Boiled Detective Series Uncovers Bones, Bodies and Murder!
A fiercely intelligent crime drama as emotionally sharp as it is historically inventive. Krishtalka’s prose is powerfully versatile, alternating between the sort of terse, unsentimental phrasing that one would expect from a detective story and poetical elegance.”~ Kirkus ReviewsPaleontologist turned private investigator, Harry Przewalski, excavates the dirty underbelly of people’s lives, unearthing sexual betrayals, treachery, fraud and murder buried beneath the science of petrified shards, skin and bones. Ultimately, he must face a brutal killing in his own past, when he fled to a desert war and came back with a gun and a license to detect. A famous, 140-year-old museum diorama is vandalized––it depicts the ferocious attack by two lions on a North African courier crossing the Sahara on a dromedary. The belly of the taxidermied camel has been sliced open and a bundle removed, shedding bits of flesh from a child. Harry is hired to investigate the macabre history of the exhibit. The taxidermist has a grisly past: a sexual affair, a lover’s betrayal, a lurid trial, and graves in Botswana and Tunisia plundered for human dioramas. The camel driver’s skull and skin are mounted under his clothing. In a Paris museum, a dead archaeologist, a bloodstained journal, and the theft of a Neanderthal child’s skull and teeth lead Harry to the stolen bundle––a scientific bombshell worth killing for in a murderous race for fame.

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Leonard Krishtalka enjoys two careers--one as novelist, essayist, and author, the other as paleontologist, museum director and evolutionary biologist. As a novelist, he uses the mystery genre to excavate the human condition. His award-winning series of Harry Przewalski novels, The Bone Field, Death Spoke, The Camel Driver, and Native Blood, are detective thrillers, each a human intrigue wrapped inside an anthropological intrigue. Each unravels the dirty underbelly of people's lives--the love, loss, betrayal, treachery, fraud, and murder buried beneath petrified shards, skin and bones.Krishtalka has authored two historical fiction novels, The Body on the Bed, and its sequel, The Body on the Bricks. Both feature crime reporter Mary Fanning, who investigates shocking murders and covers the sensational trials, all amid the social upheaval of 1870s post-Civil War Kansas.Krishtalka has also written a regular column for the Lawrence Journal-World and for Carnegie Magazine, with an acclaimed book of collected natural history essays, Dinosaur Plots.As a paleontologist, Krishtalka has worked on fossil-hunting expeditions throughout western Canada and the US, Patagonia, Europe, China, Kenya and Ethiopia, unearthing and studying the remains of past life and cultures of the planet, including dinosaurs, ancient mammals, and hominids--human ancestors. He has held academic posts at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, PA, the University of Pittsburgh, the National Science Foundation, Washington, DC, and The University of Kansas, Lawrence.Krishtalka lives in Lawrence, the central setting for two Przewalski novels, Death Spoke and its sequel, Native Blood, and for both Mary Fanning novels, The Body on the Bed and The Body on Bricks.

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• Verlag: Anamcara Press LLC
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1941237320
• ISBN 13: 9781941237328
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 298
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