The American Boy
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Interweaving real and fictional elements, The American Boy is a major new literary historical crime novel in the tradition of An Instance of the Fingerpost and Possession. England 1819: Thomas Shield, a new master at a school just outside London, is tutor to a young American boy and the boy's sensitive best friend, Charles Frant. Drawn to Frant's beautiful, unhappy mother, Thomas becomes caught up in her family's twisted intrigues. Then a brutal crime is committed, with consequences that threaten to destroy Thomas and all that he has come to hold dear. Despite his efforts, Shield is caught up in a deadly tangle of sex, money, murder and lies -- a tangle that grips him tighter even as he tries to escape from it. And what of the strange American child, at the heart of these macabre events, yet mysterious -- what is the secret of the boy named Edgar Allen Poe?
Interweaving real and fictional elements, The American Boy is a major new literary historical crime novel in the tradition of An Instance of the Fingerpost and Possession. England 1819: Thomas Shield, a new master at a school just outside London, is tutor to a young American boy and the boy's sensitive best friend, Charles Frant. Drawn to Frant's beautiful, unhappy mother, Thomas becomes caught up in her family's twisted intrigues. Then a brutal crime is committed, with consequences that threaten to destroy Thomas and all that he has come to hold dear. Despite his efforts, Shield is caught up in a deadly tangle of sex, money, murder and lies -- a tangle that grips him tighter even as he tries to escape from it. And what of the strange American child, at the heart of these macabre events, yet mysterious -- what is the secret of the boy named Edgar Allen Poe?
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Journal Entry 3 by Molyneux at Didcot Road in Didcot, Oxfordshire United Kingdom on Sunday, April 8, 2007
Released 17 yrs ago (4/7/2007 UTC) at Didcot Road in Didcot, Oxfordshire United Kingdom
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RELEASE NOTES:
On top of the small post box at the bus stop, somewhere near where Wantage Road turns into Didcot Road, on the parish border with Harwell
On top of the small post box at the bus stop, somewhere near where Wantage Road turns into Didcot Road, on the parish border with Harwell
Found on 8 April 2007 in Didcot Road, Didcot. Plan to read it on holiday and then release it again.
CAUGHT IN DIDCOT OXFORDSHIRE UNITED KINGDOM
CAUGHT IN DIDCOT OXFORDSHIRE UNITED KINGDOM
A good story, with lots of historical details about the time it is set in.
RELEASE NOTES:
Passed to a friend on 26 September 2007.
Passed to a friend on 26 September 2007.
