Murder in the Grand Bazaar: An Intellectual Thriller

American Professor Felix Markarian went to Istanbul, Turkey to meet an antiquities dealer and to appraise an ancient book, called a codex. When the police tell Markarian that the dealer has been murdered and the book stolen, the gay scholar is drawn into the investigation. Murder in the Grand Bazaar: An Intellectual Thriller, set in Istanbul at the end of the last century, suddenly thrusts a mild-mannered academic into a world of thieves and killers where nothing and no one is what they see...