J. J. Connington (1880–1947)
Autore di Nordenholt's Million
Sull'Autore
Fonte dell'immagine: gadetection
Serie
Opere di J. J. Connington
The Omnibus: The Two Tickets Puzzle, Mystery at Lynden Sands, The Case with Nine Solutions, Nemesis at Raynham Parva (1930) 3 copie
Indiciekedjan 1 copia
Before Insulin 1 copia
The Thinking Machine 1 copia
Le tre meduse 1 copia
Opere correlate
Menace of the Machine: The Rise of AI in Classic Science Fiction (British Library Science Fiction Classics) (2019) — Collaboratore — 31 copie
Bodies from the Library 5: Forgotten Stories of Mystery and Suspense from the Golden Age of Detection (2022) — Collaboratore — 28 copie
Death and Detection: The Bishop Murder Case, Death at Swaythling Court, The Season for Murder — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Connington, J. J.
- Nome legale
- Stewart, Alfred Walter
- Data di nascita
- 1880-09-05
- Data di morte
- 1947-07-01
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- UK
- Luogo di nascita
- Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK
- Luogo di morte
- Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
- Istruzione
- University of Glasgow
- Attività lavorative
- chemist
part-time novelist
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Recensioni
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 36
- Opere correlate
- 10
- Utenti
- 456
- Popolarità
- #53,831
- Voto
- 3.6
- Recensioni
- 4
- ISBN
- 85
- Lingue
- 4
- Preferito da
- 1
At the large country house there’s a maze with two centers (I’m still trying to figure that one out). Twin brother, one a barrister and the other an unscrupulous business man, are murdered in the maze centers. I found that part of the plot a little tricky and weird.
The police, in the person of the Chief Constable, begin the investigation of an original and clever double murder, but the twists and turns take a while to unravel.
I enjoyed Chief Constable Sir Clinton Driffield as the investigator; he’s persevering and not afraid to be creative in his attempts to catch a criminal.
The ending of the book is satisfying to the reader but completely implausible. I’d recommend it to Golden Age Mystery lovers, with the caveat that there’s some nonspecific talk of vivisection. The only animal harmed in the story is a guinea pig who dies instantaneously.… (altro)