Format:
Book
Title:
The final solution : a story of detection / Michael Chabon.
Author:
Chabon, Michael.
Call Number:
FIC CHABON M
Publisher, Date:
New York : Harper Perennial, [2005]
©2004
Description:
131 pages : ill. ; 22 cm
Summary:
In deep retirement in the English countryside, an 89-year old man, vaguely recollected by the locals as a once-famous detective, is more concerned with his beekeeping than his fellow man. Into his life wanders Linus Steinman, nine years old and mute, who has escaped from Nazi Germany with his sole companion: an African grey parrot. What is the meaning of the mysterious strings of German numbers the bird spews out—a top-secret SS code? The keys to a series of Swiss bank accounts? Or do they hold a significance at once more prosaic and far more sinister?
Subjects:
Holmes, Sherlock -- Fiction.
Private investigators -- England -- Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 -- England -- Fiction.
Beekeepers -- Fiction.
Older men -- Fiction.
Refugees -- Fiction.
Boys -- Fiction.
Sussex (England) -- Fiction.
Genre:
Historical fiction.
Mystery fiction.
ISBN:
006076340X (acid-free paper)
9780060777104