David Liss
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A Conspiracy of Paper: A Novel
David Liss
- 2001 Barry-1st Novel winner
- 2001 Edgar-1st Novel winner
- 2001 Macavity-1st Novel winner
- 2001 Anthony-1st Novel nominee
- Score: 36.51
Benjamin Weaver is an outsider in eighteenth-century London: a Jew among Christians; a ruffian among aristocrats; a retired pugilist who, hired by London’s gentry, travels through the criminal underworld in pursuit of debtors and thieves.
In A Conspiracy of Paper, Weaver investigates a crime of the most personal sort: the mysterious death of his estranged father, a notorious stockjobber. To find the answers, Weaver must contend with a desperate prostitute who knows too much about his past, relatives who remind him of his alienation from the Jewish…
