G. D. H. Cole (1889–1959)
Autore di The Common People, 1746-1946
Sull'Autore
Serie
Opere di G. D. H. Cole
Towards A Libertarian Socialism: Reflections on the British Labour Party and European Working-Class Movements (2021) 21 copie
Four Great Detective Novels [The Murder of Roger Ackroyd | The Red House Mystery | The Rasp | The Man from the River] (1938) 12 copie
Storia del pensiero socialista, vol. III tomo secondo: 1889-1914 La Seconda Intternazionale (1963) 9 copie
Storia del pensiero socialista, vol. IV tomo secondo: 1914-1931 Comunismo e socialdemocrazia (1958) 8 copie
Oxford Poetry 1915 6 copie
Death in the sun 4 copie
English Economic History 1922 3 copie
Death of a bride 3 copie
Principles of economic planning 2 copie
Politics and literature. 2 copie
Mrs. Warrender's profession 2 copie
The Toys of Death 2 copie
Europe, Russia and the Future 1 copia
A Century of Co-operation 1 copia
Oxford poetry, 1910-1913 1 copia
William Morris as a socialist : a lecture given on 16th January 1957 to the William Morris Society at the Art Workers'… (1977) 1 copia
the Social Contract 1 copia
Banks and Credit 1 copia
Beaumont & Fletcher : lyrics from the plays — A cura di — 1 copia
Historia de las ideas políticas 1 copia
Victory or vested interest? 1 copia
Che cosa è il denaro? 1 copia
War Aims 1 copia
Thomas Campion: Selected Poems. (The Ormond Poets Number 9) — A cura di — 1 copia
In Peril of His Life 1 copia
Planning of world trade 1 copia
A Plan for Democratic Britain 1 copia
Oxford poetry, 1914 1 copia
New beginnings 1 copia
Workers' control series 1 copia
The Dialectic -- Conclusion 1 copia
Workers' control for railwaymen 1 copia
Is this socialism? 1 copia
Que é socialismo? 1 copia
Opere correlate
Crime On Her Mind: Fifteen Stories of Female Sleuths from the Victorian Era to the Forties (1975) — Collaboratore — 103 copie
Miraculous Mysteries: Locked Room Mysteries and Impossible Crimes (2017) — Collaboratore — 103 copie
Stories in prose, stories in verse, shorter poems, lectures and essays (1942) — A cura di — 26 copie
Academy Mystery Novellas: Women Sleuths, Police Procedurals, Locked Room Puzzles, Great British Detectives ( BOX Set) (1985) — Collaboratore — 14 copie
Sleuths: Twenty-Three Great Detectives of Fiction and Their Best Stories (1931) — Collaboratore — 6 copie
The Big book of detective stories — Collaboratore — 4 copie
Selected Lyrics — A cura di — 2 copie
The great detectives — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Cole, George Douglas Howard
- Data di nascita
- 1889-09-25
- Data di morte
- 1959-01-14
- Luogo di sepoltura
- Golders Green Crematorium, London, England
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- UK
- Luogo di nascita
- Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
- Luogo di morte
- London, England, UK
- Luogo di residenza
- London, England, UK
- Istruzione
- University of Oxford (Balliol College)
St Paul's School, London, England, UK - Attività lavorative
- historian
economist
writer (economy and detectives)
philosopher - Relazioni
- Cole, Margaret Isabel (wife)
- Organizzazioni
- Fabian Society
Detection Club
Utenti
Recensioni
Liste
Premi e riconoscimenti
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 167
- Opere correlate
- 29
- Utenti
- 1,076
- Popolarità
- #23,896
- Voto
- 3.9
- Recensioni
- 10
- ISBN
- 147
- Lingue
- 4
- Preferito da
- 1
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!… (altro)