Philip MacDonald (1) (1900–1980)
Autore di The List of Adrian Messenger
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Philip MacDonald (1) ha come alias W. J. Stuart.
Serie
Opere di Philip MacDonald
Opere a cui è stato assegnato l'alias W. J. Stuart.
Four Great Detective Novels [The Murder of Roger Ackroyd | The Red House Mystery | The Rasp | The Man from the River] (1938) 13 copie
Four dramatic war novels — Autore — 3 copie
The Dark Wheel 3 copie
Ten O'Clock [Short Story] 1 copia
Dream No More [Short Story] 1 copia
Glitter [short story] 1 copia
Moonfisher 1 copia
Opere correlate
Opere a cui è stato assegnato l'alias W. J. Stuart.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: 12 Stories They Wouldn't Let Me Do on TV (1957) — Collaboratore — 163 copie
The Edgar Winners: 33rd Annual Anthology of the Mystery Writers of America (1980) — Collaboratore — 45 copie
The Mystery Hall of Fame: An Anthology of Classic Mystery and Suspense Stories (1984) — Collaboratore — 32 copie
A Treasury of Great Short Stories — Collaboratore — 7 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Altri nomi
- Porlock, Martin (pseudonym)
Fleming, Oliver
Lawless, Anthony
Stuart, W. J.
Stuart, Warren - Data di nascita
- 1900-11-05
- Data di morte
- 1980-12-10
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- UK
- Nazione (per mappa)
- England, UK
- Luogo di nascita
- London, England, UK
- Luogo di morte
- Woodland Hills, California, USA
- Attività lavorative
- author
screenwriter - Relazioni
- MacDonald, Ronald (father)
Howard, F. Ruth (wife)
MacDonald, George (grandfather)
Utenti
Recensioni
The Rasp (The Detective Club) di Philip MacDonald
Good read, the plot perhaps a bit far-fetched, the author including entertaining self-mockery of the genre he is writing.
Honestly I was underwhelmed, as a piece where basically the first serial killer in a book appears it's experimenting with how that works and why someone would kill for thrills rather than have a real motive. left me wanting both more and less. I wanted more about why and wished I hadn't spent my time reading. Honestly I don't remember much about it all but have no regrets for not re-reading to find out again.
Yes it's a smart framing device but the end left me very very angry. The solution left my first draft of a review very very sweary. Misogyny is alive and well in this story.
The result of the inquest is death by misadventure but who did it. The story has the files sent to Anthony Gethryn, the detective on leave. Only the files from the inquest and the reader is offered the chance to solve the murder mystery along with the reader. Red herrings are littered throughout but the solution, oh the solution, it is not worthy of the rest of the story.… (altro)
The result of the inquest is death by misadventure but who did it. The story has the files sent to Anthony Gethryn, the detective on leave. Only the files from the inquest and the reader is offered the chance to solve the murder mystery along with the reader. Red herrings are littered throughout but the solution, oh the solution, it is not worthy of the rest of the story.… (altro)
A thriller rather than a mystery, by my definition, since there is no “detection” per se. In any event, catching the criminal seems to be mostly a pretext for a complicated romantic plot of extreme artificiality. But the writing is a cut above.
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 46
- Opere correlate
- 28
- Utenti
- 1,194
- Popolarità
- #21,530
- Voto
- 3.8
- Recensioni
- 38
- ISBN
- 78
- Lingue
- 11
