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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Penguin Book of Murder Mysteriesdi Michael Sims
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. A nice little collection, including some authors that I had not previously read. I borrowed this as an audiobook, and noted that each story is narrated by a different person, which results in a varying quality: some had an absolutely stultifying lack of tone while others were quite well done. Each story is prefaced by an introductory note on the author, which was very useful in helping place them in context, as well as of interest, as I was unfamiliar with quite a few of them. The thirteen stories included are by Gerald Griffin, Thomas Waters, Charles Martel, James McLevy, Andrew Forrester, Jr, Mary Fortune, Richard Dowling, Charles W Chestnutt, CL Pirkis, Geraldine Bonner, Ellen Glasgow, Auguste Groner, and Anna Katherine Greene. I was pleased to see that there were a few women featured, and I'll be looking up the rest of their works too. Many of these are quite classic and somewhat outdated forms: the locked room, the usual varities of whodunnits (and you nearly always know who dun it within the first few pages), and so on, but there is a pleasure to revisiting this rather nostalgic style. ( ) nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
"An anthology of classic murder mysteries - the unfamiliar, the unjustly forgotten, and little-known gems by the most famous practitioners A Penguin Classic These are not the usual suspects. When Edgar finalist Michael Sims formed the line-up for The Penguin Book of Murder, he did not include the familiar classics that you can find anywhere. Although he wanted to explore the first century of murder mysteries (from 1827 to 1924), he sought out the unfamiliar, the unjustly forgotten, and a few little-known gems by famous practitioners. The mystery of a bloody murder has been a perennially classic theme, drawing readers to examine what motivates heinous crimes and how the investigative procedure takes us behind the scenes of tragedy. These stories from the 19th and early 20th centuries introduce the earliest detectives, both male and female, that inspired iterations from BBC radio dramas to American television. Sims's selections showcase evil masterminds, suspect narrators, early female detectives, shipboard murders, and psychological and scientific inquiries. And then, there are Clue-like titles such as "The Case of the Pool of Blood in the Pastor's Study" that a modern murder mystery fan can't resist. The Penguin Book of Murder features stories by classic authors such as Anton Chekhov, Louisa May Alcott, and Charles W. Chesnutt along with early crime writing luminaries, such as Austrian novelist Augusta Groner and the prolific American Geraldine Bonner. Surprises include a dark Irish detective story published 14 years before Poe's Dupin investigated the doings in the Rue Morgue-sixty years before the debut of Sherlock Holmes-and a Canadian First Nations detective who investigated a century before Dana Stabenow introduced Kate Shugak"-- Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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