Description

On a balmy summer’s day in Oxford an old lady who once helped decipher the Enigma Code is killed. After receiving a cryptic anonymous note containing only the address and the symbol of a circle, Arthur Seldom, a leading mathematician, arrives to find the body. Then follow more murders – an elderly man on a life-support machine is found dead with needle marks in this throat. Winner of the Planeta Prize and basis of the 2008 film of the same name with John Hurt. Softcovers. Paperback original Near Fine