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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Ringer (originale 1926; edizione 2021)di Edgar Wallace (Autore)
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È contenuto inSelected Novels (The Four Just Men / Sanders of the River / The Angel of Terror / The Dark Eyes of London / The Ringer / The Avenger / The Gunner / On the Spot / The Devil Man) di Edgar Wallace The Ringer / When the Gangs Came to London / White Face / The India-Rubber Men / The Man Who Knew di Edgar Wallace The Ringer / The Black Abbot / The Fellowship of the Frog / The India-Rubber Men / The Green Archer di Edgar Wallace Ha l'adattamentoElenchi di rilievo
A notorious assassin returns to London to avenge the death of his sister in this classic crime thriller. Word had come from Australia that the Ringer was dead. The body of the legendary killer had been pulled from Sydney Harbor--or so it was thought. In reality, it is the Ringer's sister whose fate is a watery grave. Left in the care of Maurice Meister, a London lawyer for whom she worked as a secretary, she has turned up dead in the Thames--and now the Ringer is on a mission of vengeance. The vigilante walks the streets of the city again, and if the past is any indication, Inspector Wembury of Scotland Yard won't have an easy time tracking him down. To complicate matters further, Meister is currently employed by the socially prominent family of the woman Wembury loves . . . The basis for no less than five European films, this suspenseful British novel comes from one the early twentieth century's most popular writers of crime fiction. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Alan Wembury has just been promoted and is in charge of division R, which is mostly Deptford. Nice. He returns to hi home to tell his childhood friend the good news, she happens to be the daughter of the big house, upon whose estate his father was head gardener (see what I mean about social commentary? It would have been a bit startling in the 20s all that kind of thing). He comes across her brother (a dense piece of snobbery if ever I met one) and a lawyer (slimy as a very very slimy thing). There's some business with a society theft, and some past history with a murderer who is a whizz with disguises and whose sister was the lawyers secretary until she "committed suicide" (yeah right). It all gets a bit twisted, there's some confusion at times as to who is in the room and speaking (I'm sure Mary enters a room she's already in at one point). Having said that though, it was a fun, fast and somewhat entertaining read. Not high literature by any stretch of the imagination, but fast & furious and with some heart. ( )