02264cam a2200385 i 4500 246811700 TxGeo 20151125120000.0 160624t20162015||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781455525942 pbk. 1455525944 pbk. (OCoLC)952179380 TxGeo rda Preston, Douglas J. Crimson Shore : a Pendergast novel / Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child. First oversize mass market edition. New York, NY : Grand Central Publishing, 2016. ℗2015. 339 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. 395 pages ; 19 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Pendergast ; 15 Map on lining papers. A secret chamber. A mysterious shipwreck. A murder in the desolate salt marshes. A seemingly straightforward private case turns out to be much more complicated-and sinister-than Special Agent A.X.L. Pendergast ever could have anticipated. Pendergast, together with his ward Constance Greene, travels to the quaint seaside village of Exmouth, Massachusetts, to investigate the theft of a priceless wine collection. But inside the wine cellar, they find something considerably more disturbing: a bricked-up niche that once held a crumbling skeleton. Pendergast and Constance soon learn that Exmouth is a town with a very dark and troubled history, and this skeleton may be only the first hint of an ancient transgression, kept secret all these years. But they will discover that the sins of the past are still very much alive. Local legend holds that during the 1692 witch trials in Salem, the real witches escaped, fleeing north to Exmouth and settling deep in the surrounding salt marshes, where they continued to practice their wicked arts. 20200129. Pendergast, Aloysius Fictitious character Fiction. Murder Investigation Fiction. Massachusetts Fiction. Suspense fiction. Child, Lincoln. Pendergast ; 15. QS5