Anthony Wynne (1882–1963)
Autore di Murder of a Lady
Sull'Autore
Nota di disambiguazione:
(eng) Robert McNair Wilson used the nom-de-plume Anthony Wynne when writing crime fiction. These works are combined here.
Fonte dell'immagine: Anthony Wynne
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Opere di Anthony Wynne
Opere correlate
Sleuths: Twenty-Three Great Detectives of Fiction and Their Best Stories (1931) — Collaboratore — 6 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Wilson, Robert McNair
- Altri nomi
- Wynne, Anthony (nom-de-plume)
- Data di nascita
- 1882-05-22
- Data di morte
- 1963-11-29
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- UK
- Istruzione
- University of Glasgow
- Attività lavorative
- physician
- Organizzazioni
- The Times (Medical Correspondent, 1914 - 1942)
Liberal Party - Nota di disambiguazione
- Robert McNair Wilson used the nom-de-plume Anthony Wynne when writing crime fiction. These works are combined here.
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 50
- Opere correlate
- 11
- Utenti
- 465
- Popolarità
- #52,883
- Voto
- 3.7
- Recensioni
- 16
- ISBN
- 22
- Lingue
- 5
The amateur sleuth in Murder of a Lady, Dr Hailey, is a bland non-entity whose detective approach relies heavily on building up psychological portraits of the suspects. But those portraits are dubious, at best. It's one of the real weaknesses of this book that Anthony Wynne's characters are bundles of stereotypical oddities (arising out of such original assumptions as "Ladies, amirite!"; "This is the Innate Soul of the Scottish Highlander!") whose motivations and reactions to events often struck me as unconvincing.
The other real weakness of the book is the resolution. The whodunnit of this book is reasonably easy to figure out, by process of elimination if nothing else. I can put up with that in a locked-room mystery, when the intellectual satisfaction comes so much from seeing if you can work out howdunnit before the detective does.
The howdunnit here, however, is utterly implausible in everything from timing to physics. The big reveal shouldn't make me choke with incredulity as I'm drinking my morning cuppa. Imagine me à la David Rose from Schitt's Creek declaring "I refuse! Not doing that!"… (altro)