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- Your search for "title: "The devil and the dark water"" returned 3 hits
1408889641 
Book 
Year: 2020
Language: English
Type: Book
Subject: Suspense fiction
Class Number: THRILLER
Publisher: Raven Books
Physical or Electronic: Physical
ISBN: 9781408889640
Note: Illustrations on lining papers It's 1634 and Samuel Pipps, the world's greatest detective, is being transported from the Dutch East Indies to Amsterdam, where he is facing trial and execution for a crime he may, or may not, have committed. Travelling with him is his loyal bodyguard, Arent Hayes, who is determined to prove his friend innocent, while also on board are Sara Wessel, a noble woman with a secret, and her husband, the governor general of Batavia. But no sooner is their ship out to sea than devilry begins to blight the voyage. A strange symbol appears on the sail. A dead leper stalks the decks. Livestock are slaughtered in the night. And then the passengers hear a terrible voice whispering to them in the darkness, promising them three unholy miracles. With Pipps imprisoned, only Arent and Sara can solve a mystery that stretches back into their past and now threatens to sink the ship, killing everybody on board.
Target audience: Adult
555 pages ; 24 cm (hbk)
A bizarre novel, but if you can cope with multi genre e.g. history, sci-fi, crime and more, it could be for you.
10/02/21
1408889536 
Book
Year: 2021
Language: English
Type: Book
Subject: Suspense fiction
Class Number: THRILLER
Publisher: Raven Books
Physical or Electronic: Physical
ISBN: 9781408889534
Note: Originally published: 2020 It's 1634 and Samuel Pipps, the world's greatest detective, is being transported from the Dutch East Indies to Amsterdam, where he is facing trial and execution for a crime he may, or may not, have committed. Travelling with him is his loyal bodyguard, Arent Hayes, who is determined to prove his friend innocent, while also on board are Sara Wessel, a noble woman with a secret, and her husband, the governor general of Batavia. But no sooner is their ship out to sea than devilry begins to blight the voyage. A strange symbol appears on the sail. A dead leper stalks the decks. Livestock are slaughtered in the night. And then the passengers hear a terrible voice whispering to them in the darkness, promising them three unholy miracles. With Pipps imprisoned, only Arent and Sara can solve a mystery that stretches back into their past and now threatens to sink the ship, killing everybody on board.
Target audience: Adult
552 pages, illustration (black and white) ; 20 cm (pbk)
5389188241 
Book
Year: 2021
Language: Russian
Type: Book
Class Number: RUSSIAN
Publisher: Azbuka
Physical or Electronic: Physical
ISBN: 9785389188242
Note: Novel Russian
Target audience: Adult
hbk