Download or read book The Vault written by Peter Lovesey and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2003-07-01 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Exquisitely intricate.” —The New York Times Book Review A skeletal hand is unearthed in the vault under the Pump Room in Bath, England, near the site where Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein. Then a skull is excavated. The bones came from different corpses, and one is modern. Detective Superintendent Peter Diamond must solve a series of crimes including murder and forgery, requiring a knowledge of history, nineteenth century art, literature . . . and human nature.