@article{470565, note = {"Originally published in Great Britain by Granta Books, August 2013."--Verso of title page.}, author = {Catton, Eleanor,}, url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/470565}, title = {The luminaries : a novel /}, abstract = {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.}, recid = {470565}, pages = {834 pages :}, }