"Lured into criminal Istanbul Last Updated: 12:01am BST 09/08/2007 David Robson reviews The Snake Stone by Jason Goodwin Yashim the Eunuch made his debut in The Janissary Tree, a whodunit set in a 19th-century Turkish seraglio which was so deliciously outré that it became an international bestseller. The Snake Stone is more of the same. Yashim is no longer employed in the seraglio but, when a French archaeologist is found murdered, and other corpses follow, must act swiftly to unravel the riddle. Dark forces are abroad, including a secret society dedicated to the revival of the Byzantine Empire at the expense of the emerging Ottoman regime of Sultan Mahmud II."
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