Robert Richardson (1) (1940–2021)
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Serie
Opere di Robert Richardson
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Richardson, Robert Oliver
- Data di nascita
- 1940-09-26
- Data di morte
- 2021-08-31
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- UK
- Luogo di nascita
- Stretford, Lancashire, England
- Luogo di residenza
- Old Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England
Dore, Yorkshire, England - Istruzione
- Stretford grammar school
- Attività lavorative
- journalist
newspaper editor
crime writer - Organizzazioni
- Manchester County Express (indentured trainee reporter|1959)
Daily Mail (Manchester office|subeditor |Manchester office|subeditor)
Welwyn and Hatfield Times (editor)
Herts Advertiser (editor)
Samaritans (volunteer)
Independent (features desk|subeditor|1987) (mostra tutto 10)
Crime Writers’ Association (chair|1993-94|2006-07)
Observer (1994|2004)
Sunday Business (deputy chief sub-editor|2000-2004)
Guardian (business and Money desks|2004-2014) - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Crime Writers' Association (special Red Herring award for services to the association|2020)
- Breve biografia
- Also the author of:
The book of Hatfield (1978),
(with Beryl Carrington), Yesterday's town : St Albans (1986).
Utenti
Recensioni
a British lord is murdered. Is it the cousin who will inherit, the jealous husband or rejected homosexual lover?
DNF.
But it's still only getting 1 star.
I got through 26% of this book, and that was too much. More than it deserves. Just when I thought I might make it through, Richardson describes a cricket match is excruciating detail.
And that's where he could have turned it around. If you can introduce something to a reader, and hold their interest, you've proven your worth. But to write it as such an in-group kind of thing that the reader unfamiliar with cricket has to go through SEVERAL pages to skip past it... that is the end for this reader.… (altro)
But it's still only getting 1 star.
I got through 26% of this book, and that was too much. More than it deserves. Just when I thought I might make it through, Richardson describes a cricket match is excruciating detail.
And that's where he could have turned it around. If you can introduce something to a reader, and hold their interest, you've proven your worth. But to write it as such an in-group kind of thing that the reader unfamiliar with cricket has to go through SEVERAL pages to skip past it... that is the end for this reader.… (altro)
Entertaining, but as characterizes this genre of mystery, a little contrived. The red herrings were indeed effective, but in the end the story did not affect me very much. The best scene was Maltravers facing down the police chief, Madden.
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 11
- Utenti
- 341
- Popolarità
- #69,903
- Voto
- 3.3
- Recensioni
- 6
- ISBN
- 81
- Lingue
- 5
The relaxed holiday disappears as a skeleton disappears and a body is found.