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- 040 __ |a YDXCP |b eng |e rda |c YDXCP |d BTCTA |d GK8 |d MOF |d CZA |d PLF |d WIM |d HCO |d UPZ |d VVS |d NSB |d CDX |d LMR |d UtOrBLW
- 050 14 |a PR9639.4.C39 |b L86 2013
- 100 1_ |a Catton, Eleanor, |d 1985- |e author.
- 245 14 |a The luminaries : |b a novel / |c Eleanor Catton.
- 250 __ |a First United States edition.
- 260 __ |a New York : |b Little, Brown, |c 2013.
- 300 __ |a 834 pages : |b illustrations ; |c 24 cm.
- 336 __ |a text |b txt |2 rdacontent.
- 337 __ |a unmediated |b n |2 rdamedia.
- 338 __ |a volume |b nc |2 rdacarrier.
- 500 __ |a "Originally published in Great Britain by Granta Books, August 2013."--Verso of title page.
- 520 __ |a 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.
- 650 _0 |a Immigrants |z New Zealand |v Fiction.
- 650 _0 |a Criminal investigation |z New Zealand |v Fiction.
- 650 _0 |a Prostitutes |v Fiction.
- 650 _0 |a Trials (Murder) |z New Zealand |v Fiction.
- 651 _0 |a New Zealand |x History |y 1853-1876 |v Fiction.
- 651 _0 |a New Zealand |x Gold discoveries |v Fiction.