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The Blood Doctor 

The Blood Doctor (2002)
A novel by Barbara Vine

 

"Barbara Vine has transcended her genre by her remarkable imaginative power to explore and illuminate the dark corners of the human psyche."
P D James


When Martin Nanther, Hereditary Peer in the House of Lords, is choosing the subject of his next biography, he becomes intrigued by the life of his own great-grandfather, Henry Nanther. So grateful was Queen Victoria for Henry's services as physician to the royal family that she granted him a peerage, making him a lord, the first doctor ever to be so honored. Henry had been especially attentive to hemophiliacs in the royal family, for he was obsessed with blood. As he recounted in his diary, "Red is my favorite color. To me a splash of blood is beautiful, and I profoundly lack understanding of those who flinch or even faint at the sight of it."

As his research deepens, Martin begins to uncover hints that his great-grandfather's fascination with blood may have had its darker side. The murder of Henry's fiancée, the death of his young son, the remarkable number of relatives and friends who died mysteriously—could all these have been mere coincidence? Martin scours England and America for relatives whose attics or memories might hold clues, until finally the tragic truth stands revealed.

Drawing from the dark themes of obsession and murder that drive so many of Barbara Vine's extraordinary novels, The Blood Doctor is also enriched by domestic intimacies familiar to readers of Ruth Rendell's beloved Inspector Wexford novels and by details of Dame Rendell's own experience as a Life Peer in the House of Lords. Once again we have a masterful work from a storyteller of the highest order.

Genre: Mystery
 
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Hardback Editions

February 2003 : Hardback
Title: The Blood Doctor
Author(s):: Barbara Vine
ISBN: 0754075729 / 9780754075721 (UK edition)
Publisher: BBC Audiobooks Ltd
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July 2002 : Hardback
Title: The Blood Doctor: A Novel
Author(s):: Barbara Vine
ISBN: 1400045045 / 9781400045044 (USA edition)
Publisher: Shaye Areheart Books
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July 2002 : Hardback
Title: The Blood Doctor (Windsor Selection)
Author(s):: Barbara Vine
ISBN: 0754017869 / 9780754017868 (UK edition)
Publisher: Chivers Large print (Chivers, Windsor, Paragon & C
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June 2002 : Hardback
Title: The Blood Doctor
Author(s):: Barbara Vine
ISBN: 0670912743 / 9780670912742 (USA, AU, or UK edition)
Publisher: Viking
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Paperback Editions

November 2003 : Paperback
Title: The Blood Doctor: A Novel
Author(s):: Barbara Vine
ISBN: 1400032520 / 9781400032525 (USA edition)
Publisher: Vintage
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March 2003 : Paperback
Title: The Blood Doctor
Author(s):: Barbara Vine
ISBN: 0141009160 / 9780141009162 (UK edition)
Publisher: Penguin
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May 2003 : Paperback
Title: The Blood Doctor
Author(s):: Barbara Vine
ISBN: 0754091783 / 9780754091783 (UK edition)
Publisher: Chivers Large print (Chivers, Windsor, Paragon & C
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January 2003 : Paperback
Title: The Blood Doctor
Author(s):: Barbara Vine
ISBN: 0141013702 / 9780141013701 (UK edition)
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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May 2002 : Paperback
Title: The Blood Doctor
Author(s):: Barbara Vine
ISBN: 0670912751 / 9780670912759 (USA, AU, or UK edition)
Publisher: Viking
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Audio Editions

March 2003 : Audio Cassette
Title: The Blood Doctor
Author(s):: Barbara Vine
ISBN: 0754009416 / 9780754009412 (UK edition)
Publisher: Chivers Audio Books
Availability: Amazon   Amazon CA   Amazon UK   

February 2003 : Audio CD
Title: The Blood Doctor
Author(s):: Barbara Vine
ISBN: 0754055744 / 9780754055747 (UK edition)
Publisher: Chivers Audio Books
Availability: Amazon CA   Amazon UK   

June 2002 : Audio Cassette
Title: The Blood Doctor
Author(s):: Barbara Vine
ISBN: 0141803770 / 9780141803777 (UK edition)
Publisher: Penguin Audiobooks
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Kindle Editions

December 2007 : Kindle edition
Title: The Blood Doctor: A Novel (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)
Author(s):: Barbara Vine
ISBN: B000XUBG3W
Publisher: Vintage
Availability: Amazon   

March 2003 : Kindle edition
Title: The Blood Doctor
Author(s):: Barbara Vine
ISBN: B002VISNDK
Publisher: Penguin
Availability: Amazon UK   

 


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