The Blood Doctor : A Novel Paperback - 2003
by Barbara Vine
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In the tenth mystery bearing the pen name of Barbara Vine, internationally celebrated novelist Ruth Rendell illuminates a doctor's struggle between the desire to heal and the baser human instincts.
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Details
- Title The Blood Doctor : A Novel
- Author Barbara Vine
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition; F
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 369
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, New York
- Date 2003
- Bookseller's Inventory # G1400032520I3N01
- ISBN 9781400032525 / 1400032520
- Weight 0.63 lbs (0.29 kg)
- Dimensions 8.04 x 5.22 x 0.82 in (20.42 x 13.26 x 2.08 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 19th Century
- Cultural Region: British
- Library of Congress subjects Mystery fiction, Historical fiction
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004270014
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
Summary
Barbara Vine's new novel is about blood - blood in its metaphysical sense as the conductor of an inherited title and blood in its physical sense as the transmitter of disease.The current Lord Nanther, experiencing the reform of the House of Lords, embarks on a biography of his great-grandfather, the first Lord Nanther, favoured physician to Queen Victoria, expert on blood diseases and particularly the royal disease of haemophilia. What he uncovers begins to horrify him as he realizes that Nanther died a guilty man - carrying a horrific secret to the grave.The Blood Doctor weaves effortlessly between past and present, public life and private life. The result is a superbly satisfying novel about ambition, obsession and bad blood.
From the publisher
From the jacket flap
Sometimes it's best to leave the past alone. For when biographer Martin Nanther looks into the life of his famous great-grandfather Henry, Queen Victoria's favorite physician, he discovers some rather unsettling coincidences, like the fact that the doctor married the sister of his recently murdered fiancee. The more Martin researches his distant relative, the more fascinated--and horrified--he becomes. Why did people have a habit of dying around his great grandfather? And what did his late daughter mean when she wrote that he's done "monstrous, quite appalling things"?
Barbara Vine (a.k.a. Ruth Rendell) deftly weaves this story of an eminent Victorian with a modern yarn about the embattled biographer, who is watching the House of Lords prepare to annul membership for hereditary peers and thus strip him of his position. Themes of fate and family snake throughout this teasing psychological suspense, a typically chilling tale from a master of the genre.
Barbara Vine (a.k.a. Ruth Rendell) deftly weaves this story of an eminent Victorian with a modern yarn about the embattled biographer, who is watching the House of Lords prepare to annul membership for hereditary peers and thus strip him of his position. Themes of fate and family snake throughout this teasing psychological suspense, a typically chilling tale from a master of the genre.
