The Nightingale Gallery
Paul Harding. Avon Books, $4.99 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-380-71751-4
Fourteenth-century London provides the setting for Harding's evocative, scrupulously researched period mystery. (May)
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Reviewed on: 05/03/1993
Genre: Fiction
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