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Sto caricando le informazioni... Wycliffe and the Guilt Edged Alibi (1971)di W. J. Burley
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Wycliffe and the Guilt Edged Alibi, by W.J. Burley, opens with the discovery of the body of the much younger wife of a prominent Cornish man, son of a dynastic business empire. It takes no time at all to determine that she was murdered, and given the prominence of the family and the fact that she was also the half-sister of a nationally known politician, it is not surprising that Chief Superintendent Wycliffe is called upon to investigate. As he interviews witnesses and tracks down clues, Wycliffe soon finds that there are very few people who can be ruled out as a suspect, and he is running out of time to identify the culprit.... This is one of a series of British detective novels written in the 1960s and 1970s, some of which became the basis for a television series in that country. I like Wycliffe: he is a complex, self-doubting and sometimes brooding character; and I like the Cornish settings of the tales, along with the quite well-drawn characters of the various villagers and others in any given story. I don't much like the near-continuous, very casual sexism in these books (and I suspect they avoid racism only because they're primarily set in a time and place that was populated almost completely by Caucasians), but I am also aware that they are of their times, and in 1971, when this book was published, such attitudes toward and treatment of women in fiction mirrored that of life. I'm glad I live in more enlightened times, and that I am able to place these books in context, thus to at least reduce my indignation. Oh, and the characters all smoke, too. Constantly. If you can stand such things, however, these books are quite entertaining, and so deserve a mild recommendation from me. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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A family feud leads to murder - and Superintendent Wycliffe is on the case... Caroline Bryce came from the top of the social register in the tranquil town of Treen. So it was quite a scandal when her body was dragged from the bottom of the river. As Superintendent Wycliffe investigates, he is faced with a number of questions: who would want to kill the beautiful Mrs Bryce? Was it a lover's quarrel? Or a family feud? Or a long-held resentment which had suddenly exploded in a moment of madness? As Wycliffe begins to unravel an intricate tangle of love and hate, he finds himself on the trail of a psychotic killer who feels no guilt - and will not hesitate to strike again... Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)823.914Literature English & Old English literatures English fiction Modern Period 1901-1999 1945-1999Classificazione LCVotoMedia:
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The novel is fairly well written and moderately interesting, and is quite a short book printed with large font so a quick read, but I realised 'whodunnit' about half way through. There were some red herrings, mainly around the culprit's motive, in an attempt to throw the reader off, but on the next to last page, the protagonist Wycliffe states exactly the motive I had identified halfway through. So, nice to get it right, but usually crime novels come as a surprise at the end and this didn't. I don't think therefore I will bother with any more of these. ( )