The luminaries

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The luminaries [electronic resource] / Eleanor Catton.

Catton, Eleanor, 1985- (author.). OverDrive, Inc. (Added Author).

Summary:

Arriving in New Zealand in 1866 to seek his fortune in the goldfields, Walter Moody finds himself drawn into a series of unsolved crimes and complex mysteries.

This novel is a murder mystery set in a remote gold-mining frontier town in 19th-century New Zealand. Arriving in New Zealand in 1866 a weary Englishman, Walter Moody, lands in a gold-mining frontier town on the coast of New Zealand to make his fortune and forever leave behind his family's shame. On arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of twelve local men who have met in secret to investigate what links three crimes that occurred on a single day, events in which each man finds himself implicated in some way. Moody finds himself drawn into a series of unsolved crimes and complex mysteries.

Record details

ISBN: 9780771019135 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0771019130 (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: 1 online resource
Publisher: Toronto, Ontario : McClelland & Stewart, 2013.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:: A sphere within a sphere -- Auguries - The house of self-undoing -- Paenga-wha-wha -- Weight and lucre -- The widow and the weeds -- Domicile -- The truth about Aurora -- Mutable Earth -- Matters of succession -- Orion sets when Scorpio rises -- The old moon in the young moon's arms.