Jenny White
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Jenny
White is author of the Kamil Pasha mystery series set in late
19th-century Istanbul during the dying days of the Ottoman Empire: The
Sultan's Seal, a finalist for the Ellis Peters Historical Crime Award;
The Abyssinian Proof; and the forthcoming The Winter Thief. She is
professor of anthropology at Boston University, specializing in Turkey.
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The Winter Thief
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 December 1888.
Vera Arti carries The Communist Manifesto in Armenian through
Istanbul's streets, unaware of the men following her. A bank robbery
and illegal weapons lead Special Prosecutor Kamil Pasha to uncover a
plan to massacre an entire valley. Suspicion falls on a socialist
commune Arti's friends organized in the eastern mountains.
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The Abyssinian Proof
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Nineteenth-century Istanbul
thrills in this page-turner about a conspiracy to steal an ancient
reliquary whose secret could change the world. The search into the old
neighborhoods where Istanbul's crime rings reside may lose Kamil not
only his position but also his life. Jenny White re-creates the gritty
underworld of a dying empire.
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The Sultan's Seal
0393333728
The naked body of an
Englishwoman washes up in Istanbul wearing a pendant inscribed with the
seal of the deposed sultan. Rich in sensuous detail, this novel
brilliantly captures the social upheavals of the waning Ottoman Empire.
Shortlisted for the 2006 ELLIS PETERS HISTORICAL CRIME AWARD. Booklist
starred review: "CSI goes Ottoman Empire."
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