TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pears, Iain
AU  - Pears, Iain;
AU  - Sarotte, Georges Michel,
TI  - An instance of the Fingerpost
SN  - 9780099751816
U1  - 823.914 PEA 
PY  - 1998///
CY  - New York 
PB  - : Riverhead Books
KW  - Literature
KW  - English and Old English literatures
KW  - English fiction
KW  - Great Britain -- History -- Charles II, 1660-1685 -- Fiction
KW  - Oxford (England) -- Fiction
KW  - England -- Social life and customs -- 17th century -- Fiction
KW  - Physicians -- England -- Fiction
N1  - A question of precedence --
The great trust --
The character of compliance --
An instance of the fingerpost
N2  - A novel on the way we interpret events to suit our purpose. The protagonists are four people giving evidence in a murder in 17th century England. One blames the crime on too much authority, another on the lack of it. A look at the controversies of the day, from medical experiments to religious freethinking
ER  -