01592cam a2200277 4500 503782150 TxAuBib 20170628120000.0 170428s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781328662088 132866208X TxAuBib Potzsch, Oliver. The play of death : a hangman's daughter tale / Oliver Potzsch ; translated by Lee Chadeayne. Boston : Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017. 493 pages : ills. hangman's daughter tale, A The mysterious sixth entry in the Hangman's Daughter series. It is 1670 and Simon Fronwieser is in the town of Oberammergau to bring his seven-year-old son to boarding school. As he bids his boy a tearful farewell, news comes of a shocking murder: the man who was to play the part of Christ in the town's Passion Play has been found dead, nailed to the set's cross. As there is no doctor in town, Simon is brought in to examine the body. The chance to spend more time with his son and to investigate the murder quickly convince him to stay.Soon he is joined by his father-in-law, Jakob Kuisl, the Schongau hangman, and the two begin piecing together the puzzle of the actor's death. 20170628. Murder investigation Fiction. Historical fiction. Germany History Fiction. Suspense fiction. Chadeayne, Lee. A hangman's daughter tale.