An historical Murder mystery based on real events.
His previous novel, The Second Daughter, was a Semi-Finalist in Literary Fiction at The Kindle Book Review Book Awards..
Author of many academic articles and books, his book, Uncommon Sense: The Strangest Ideas from the Smartest Philosophers, was named an "Outstanding Academic Title of 2013" by Choice.
About the Author: ANDREW Pessin is Professor of Philosophy at Connecticut College, with degrees from Yale and Columbia.
But Baillet somehow perseveres, surprising everyone as he figures it all out-all the way to the explosive end.
None of it is easy, as nearly everyone is a suspect and no one can be trusted.
But solving the mystery of Descartes\'s death (Baillet soon learns) requires first solving the mystery of Descartes\'s life, with all its dangerous secrets ...
A likeable misfit with a mysterious backstory, he arrives just as the French Ambassador desperately needs an impartial Frenchman to prove that Descartes died of natural causes.
Enter Adrien Baillet.
Shortly thereafter he was dead.
With much trepidation but not much choice, he arrived in Stockholm in mid-October.
He was 53, penniless, living in exile in the United Provinces, alone.
Though he was the world\'s leading philosopher, his life had by this point fallen apart.
In 1649, Descartes was invited by the Queen of Sweden to become her Court Philosopher.
Who would want to Murder the world\'s most famous philosopher? Turns out: nearly everyone.
An historical Murder mystery based on real events
