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Great Britain, 1923: When Detective Inspector John Redfyre is invited to attend the annual St. Barnabas College Christmas concert in his Aunt Henrietta's stead, he is expecting a quiet evening. But he arrives to witness a minor scandal: Juno Proudfoot, the trumpeter of the headlining musical duo, is a woman, and a young one at that - practically unheard of in conservative academic circles. When she suffers a near-fatal fall after the close of the show, Redfyre must consider whether someone was trying to kill her.

Basado en hechos reales, esta magnífica novela de aventuras narra la historia de Jimmie Angel, el piloto norte americano, que sobrevolando las formaciones rocosas de la Gran Sabana en Venezuela, en búsqueda de una legendaria mina de oro, tuvo la suerte de ver una impresionante torre de agua cristalina que, desde la cima de una montana, se lanzaba al vacío, en una caída vertical de casi mil metros: el salto de agua ¡mas alto de la tierra!

Brought to you by Penguin. From the moment Dr J. Doyle takes lodgings in Baker Street with the angel Crow, he becomes intimately acquainted with the supernatural and criminal worlds of London. But living with a rogue angel is not so easy; the pair find themselves drawn into mystery after mystery...