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G. D. H. Cole (1889–1959)

Autore di The Common People, 1746-1946

167+ opere 1,076 membri 10 recensioni 1 preferito

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Opere di G. D. H. Cole

The Murder at Crome House (1927) 32 copie
The meaning of Marxism (1948) 30 copie
The Brooklyn Murders (1923) 23 copie
The people's front (1937) 16 copie
Chartist Portraits (1989) 15 copie
End of an Ancient Mariner (1933) 13 copie
Death in the Quarry (1934) 11 copie
Socialism in Evolution (1938) 11 copie
Dead Man's Watch (1931) 11 copie
Last Will and Testament (1936) 10 copie
Scandal at School (1935) 9 copie
The Man From the River (1928) 9 copie
Death of a Star (1932) 8 copie
Big Business Murder (1935) — Autore — 8 copie
Off with her Head! (1938) 8 copie
Burglars In Bucks (1930) 8 copie
The Walking Corpse (1931) 7 copie
The Blatchington Tangle (1926) 7 copie
Robert Owen (1930) 7 copie
The Condition of Britain (1937) — Autore — 7 copie
Double Blackmail (1939) 6 copie
Samuel Butler (2005) 6 copie
A Lesson in Crime (1933) 6 copie
What Marx Really Meant (1934) 5 copie
Dr. Tancred Begins (1935) 5 copie
Fabian socialism (1971) 5 copie
The Missing Aunt (1937) 5 copie
The Brothers Sackville (1936) 5 copie
Social Theory (1930) 5 copie
Socialist Economics (1950) 4 copie
Knife in the Dark (1942) 4 copie
Essays in social theory (1979) 3 copie
The Affair at Aliquid (1933) 3 copie
Disgrace to the College (1937) 2 copie
Counterpoint murder (1940) 2 copie
Workshop organisation (1973) 2 copie
Oxford Poetry 1910-1913 (1914) — A cura di — 2 copie
Toper's End (1942) 2 copie
Greek tragedy (1939) 2 copie
Wilson and some others (1940) 2 copie
Selected Poems {The Ormond Poets} (1928) — A cura di — 1 copia
War Aims 1 copia
John Burns (1943) 1 copia
Building and Planning (1945) 1 copia
What is ahead of us? (2023) 1 copia
Oxford Poetry 1914 - 1916 (1917) — A cura di — 1 copia
Economic planning (1971) 1 copia

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La pietra di luna (1868) — Introduzione, alcune edizioni10,769 copie
Il contratto sociale (1762) — Traduttore, alcune edizioni5,392 copie
Discorsi e contratto sociale (1950) — Traduttore, alcune edizioni888 copie
L'ammiraglio alla deriva (1931) — Collaboratore — 799 copie
The Oxford Book of English Detective Stories (1990) — Collaboratore — 399 copie
Murder by the Book: Mysteries for Bibliophiles (2021) — Collaboratore — 168 copie
Women Sleuths (1985) — Collaboratore — 130 copie
Lady on the Case: 22 Female Detective Stories (1988) — Collaboratore — 76 copie
The Vintage Book of Classic Crime (1993) — Collaboratore — 33 copie
Murder on a Winter's Night (2021) — Collaboratore — 32 copie
Bodies from the Library 4 (2021) — Collaboratore — 30 copie
The Mystery Book (1934) — Collaboratore — 29 copie
The Great Book of Thrillers (1935) — Collaboratore — 27 copie
The Boys' Second Book of Great Detective Stories (1940) — Collaboratore — 26 copie
Crimes of Cymru: Classic Mystery Tales of Wales (2023) — Collaboratore — 24 copie
Murder by the Seaside (2022) — Collaboratore — 22 copie
France 1940-1955 (1956) — Prefazione, alcune edizioni21 copie
The Second Century of Detective Stories (1938) — Collaboratore — 12 copie
Essays in labour history (1960) — Honoree — 9 copie
Detection Medley (1939) — Collaboratore — 7 copie
The Big book of detective stories — Collaboratore — 4 copie
Selected Lyrics — A cura di — 2 copie
The great detectives — Collaboratore — 1 copia

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Warning: for reasons explained below, this review may contain spoilers for another book by the Coles, Dr Tancred Begins.
Dr Ben Tancred is a private investigator who appears in two books by G. D. H. and M. Cole. Unusually, although both publlshed within a year of each other, they are set about twenty-five years apart. What is more, several of the characters in the earlier book also appear in this one, which means that they should be read in chronological order if possible. Unfortunately, they are both quite scarce books, particularly the first of the two, and I've only read this, the second. (It was reprinted some years ago as part of the Crime Club series "The Disappearing Detectives", but I don't think this had a very large print run.)
Dr Tancred is approached by an old acquaintance, Sarah Pendexter, in connection with the recent death of Lord St. Blaizey. She believes very strongly that it was murder (which view she shares with the doctor who examined the body) and that it was committed by her nephew, Rupert. However, this view appears to be mainly based on her claim that she saw the murder committed in a vision (she is a religious fanatic, and many people consider her insane). However, Tancred thinks that her other claim, to have seen Rupert riding on a horse in the vicinity of the crime (which was carried out by knocking the old man off his horse, in the woods near his residence), to be more credible, and eventually he decides to agree to investigate the case.
After consulting Superintendent Wilson (who was involved in the previous case, but plays only a small part in this one), Tancred goes down to the area where the victim lived (in Cornwall, near the river Fowey) and starts to look into the case. Another person whom he had met before is Rupert's sister Helen, who is now married to the victim's son, and hence has become Lady St Blaizey as a result of her father-in-law's death. Could she be involved in the murder? We have learned in the first chapter that she was previously tried for the murder of her stepfather (the story of this is told in the earlier book), and Ben was the main person responsible for her acquittal. He thought that he knew who really was the killer on the earlier occasion, but was unable to prove it, and that person is the principal suspect now. However, it takes a good deal of investigation to bring the case to a climax, with other issues involving a possibly forged will and a second murder.
It should be added that the book is set in a real area, with only slight changes to some place names (the reasons for which don't entirely make sense) and I was interested to note, by comparing the map provided with a modern road-map, that the area covered would today have to include the Eden Project!
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JonRob | Mar 18, 2022 |
A highly entertaining read, among the best by this married double act. When a body is found in the sea near a Devonshire village, Sir Charles Wylie decides that the local police are not competent enough to investigate it and starts doing so himself. There's an interesting combination of amateur and professional detection, with Sir Charles a fairly sympathetic figure despite his flaws, and Superintendent Wilson intervening to bring the whole thing to a rather sedate but satisfying ending. The identity of the killer isn't a total surprise, but nevertheless many people won't fathom the whole of the plot… (altro)
 
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JonRob | Sep 4, 2021 |
Dick Preston, at his aunt’s invitation, is staying at the country home of Lord and Lady Blatchington. After an early swim on his first morning there, Dick visits the library only to stumble across the dead body of a man, who is not a member of the house party. Of course, the many guests and the members of the household all seem to have something they want to hide from the police. When an arrest is imminent, Superintendent Wilson, no longer of Scotland Yard, is asked to prove the innocence of the suspect.

I’m enjoying this series by GDH and Margaret Cole, which are good examples of Golden Age detective fiction. Not as good as a Christie, Sayers, Marsh, or Allingham, they are nonetheless enjoyable works. I’m surprised that the books were never republished, although the attitude toward African natives in this book may be very jarring unless one keeps in mind that the book was written in the 1920s and was unfortunately reflective of that time. I plan to read as many in this series as I can get from interlibrary loans.
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rretzler | Jan 25, 2019 |
The Death of a Millionaire is the second book in the Superintendent Wilson series by GHD and Margaret Cole, who were members of the Detection Club. It is an excellent example of a piece of the Golden Age of Detection fiction, and I’m a little surprised that the British Library hasn't republished the series. The copy I borrowed from ILL was a copy of the first US edition.

Superintendent Wilson and Inspector Braikie are very stumped with the case of a millionaire whose secretary seems to have murdered him in his hotel room. No body was found -however, the blood found at the scene, a witness locked in the closet and several eyewitnesses reporting that the secretary left the hotel with a large trunk and the missing millionaire seem to be conclusive evidence.

Although I highly enjoyed this book, the plot seemed a little unnecessarily complex. Overall, I thought it worked well, as it was an original idea. I would recommend this book to anyone who enjoys Golden Age detective fiction.
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rretzler | Jan 17, 2019 |

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