The Ravi Compact
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Synopsis
A collection that should have hung in a museum. A sea captain who drowned with the truth in his pocket. And a pact — the Ravi Compact — sworn long ago among men now mostly dead and entirely unwilling to let the past stay buried.
When Mary Aldren brings her father’s death to the house on Pinckney Street, Henry Hamilton ignores the legend and follows the object: a treasure’s long, crooked route back toward the people it was stolen from. Every hand it passed through took something. Every one of them, in the end, paid.
Some inheritances arrive as a gift. Others arrive as a debt.
Rich in atmosphere, intelligence, and human feeling, The Ravi Compact is a gripping contemporary reimagining of the great detective tradition. The second volume of The Adventures of Henry Hamilton, it is a novel of memory, justice, and hidden debts—where every clue carries the weight of history, and every revelation comes at a price.
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