by Charles Palliser · Ballantine Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780345369420
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«The Quincunx» is the mystery novel by Charles Palliser, published by Ballantine Books in paperback (1033 pages, in English).
In nineteenth-century England, John Huffam and his mother guard a codicil to the will of the wealthy Jeoffrey Huffam; that document unleashes a struggle among five families —Huffam, Mompesson, Clothier, Maliphant and Palphramond— over the inheritance. The novel combines property disputes, crimes and deceptions in a plot inspired by Victorian fiction.
The full subtitle is The Inheritance of John Huffam. This paperback edition was published in 1989 and consists of 1033 pages.
For readers of classic mystery and Victorian fiction who appreciate lengthy novels with plots of inheritances and secrets.
