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The title of a novel?
I'm trying to remember the title of a novel about politics and cryptography in 17th century Restoration England I read several years ago. I know it had the word "Pear" in its title. One of its premises was that Charles II had converted to Roman Catholicism secretly shortly before his death. Anybody help me?
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- charmingLv 77 years agoFavorite Answer
"An Instance of the Fingerpost" by Iain Pears.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Instance_of_the_Fi...
"A murder in 17th-century Oxford is related from the contradictory points of view of four of the characters, all of them unreliable narrators. The setting of the novel is 1663, just after the restoration of the monarchy following the English Civil War, when the authority of King Charles II is not yet settled, and conspiracies abound."
