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The sultan's seal [electronic resource] / Jenny White.

Summary:

The body of a young Englishwoman washes up in Istanbul wearing a pendant inscribed with the seal of the deposed sultan. The death resembles the unsolved murder of another Englishwoman, ten years before. A magistrate in the new secular courts, Kamil Pasha, sets out to find the killer, but his dispassionate belief in science and modernity is shaken by betrayal and widening danger. In a mystical voice, a young Muslim woman recounts her own relationship with one of the dead women and with the suspected killer. Were these political murders involving the palace, or crimes of personal passion? Rich in sensuous detail, this novel brilliantly captures the political and social upheavals of the waning Ottoman Empire and the contradictory desires of the human soul.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0786153229 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
  • ISBN: 9780786153220 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
  • Publisher: [Ashland, Or.] : Blackstone Audio Inc., 2006.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Downloadable audio file.
Title from: Title details screen.
Unabridged.
Duration: 10:53:41.
Participant or Performer Note:
Read by Nadia May.
System Details Note:
Requires OverDrive Media Console
Requires OverDrive Media Console (WMA file size: 156574 KB; MP3 file size: 306795 KB).
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subject: Governesses > Crimes against > Fiction.
Young women > Crimes against > Fiction.
Police magistrates > Fiction.
British > Turkey > Fiction.
Istanbul (Turkey) > Fiction.
Genre: DOWNLOADABLE AUDIOBOOK.
Historical fiction.
Mystery fiction.
Audiobooks.

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