01230cam a2200313 4500 547207808 TxAuBib 20090925120000.0 121112s2009||||||||||||d|||||||||||eng|u 9781410418968 1410418960 (OCoLC)320435969 TxAuBib Pears, Iain. Stone's fall [large print] / Iain Pears. Large print ed. Waterville, Me. : Thorndike Press, 2009. 861 p. (large print) ; 24 cm. John Stone, financier and arms dealer, dies falling out of a window at his London home. The quest to uncover the truth behind his death plays out against the backdrop of high-stakes international finance, Europe's first great age of espionage, and the start of the twentieth century's arms race. 20090925. Capitalists and financiers Fiction. Arms transfers Fiction. International finance Fiction. Large type books. Mystery Fiction. Europe History 1871-1918 Fiction. Historical fiction. TXCKT