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Als der leblose Körper eines russischen Agenten auf dem Grund eines Klosterbrunnens gefunden wird, weiß Yahim nur zu genau, wer dafür verantwortlich zu machen ist. Fevzi Ahmet Pasha, Kommandant der Osmanischen Flotte, Yashims Mentor. Ein rücksichtsloser und grausamer Mann und der einzige Mensch, den Yashim fürchtet. Und nun muss Yashim sein Geheimnis aufdecken, ein Geheimnis, dass in den Palastmauern ruht, im Harem des Sultans, wo Frauen spurlos verschwinden können.

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The thrilling new Yashim the Detective mystery

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When the body of a Russian agent is found down a monastery well, Yashim knows exactly who to blame. Fevzi Ahmet Pasha, commander of the Ottoman fleet.

Years ago, when Yashim first entered the sultan´s service, Fevzi Ahmet was his mentor. Ruthless, cruel, and - in Yashim´s eyes - ultimately ineffective, he is the only man who makes him afraid. And now Yashim must confront the secret that Fevzi Pasha has been keeping all these years, a secret whose roots lie deep in the tortured atmosphere of the sultan´s harem, where normal rules are suspended, and women can simply disappear.

Once again, Yashim and his friends encounter treachery and politics, played out against the backdrop of 1840s Istanbul.

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Jason Goodwin is the Edgar Award-winning author of the Investigator Yashim series. The first five books- The Janissary Tree, The Snake Stone, The Bellini Card, An Evil Eye and The Baklava Club -have been published to international acclaim, alongside Yashim Cooks Istanbul, a cookbook of Ottoman Turkish recipes inspired by the series. Goodwin studied Byzantine history at Cambridge and is the author of Lords of the Horizons: A History of the Ottoman Empire , among other award-winning nonfiction. He lives with his wife and children in England.

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