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Sto caricando le informazioni... English Country House Murders (1989)di Thomas Godfrey (A cura di)
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. If you enjoy the classic English murder that is commemorated in the game of Clues you will probably enjoy this collection of short stories that spans the history of the genre. Works by well known authors such as Doyle, Christie and Sayers are included as well as lesser known writers such as Cyril Hare, Ethel Lina White and James Miles. Good introduction. "English Country House Murders: Classic Crime Fiction of Britain’s Upper Crust," edited by Thomas Godfrey, is just what the title suggests, an anthology of 22 mystery stories, all set in the country houses of the aristocracy in Britain, and all involving murder in one form or another. The nice thing about this anthology is the range of authors: we start with none other than Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and read chronologically up through Ruth Rendell and P.D. James, a period spanning as much as 150 years or so! In between there are stories by Wilkie Collins, Dame Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers, Ngaio Marsh, John DIckson Carr, P.G. Wodehouse, Margery Allingham and G.K. Chesterton, to name but a few. An excellent selection of stories to read on cold winter nights; recommended! nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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The stories have been arranged in developmental, roughly chronologic, sequence. We begin with an appearance by Sherlock Holmes, still the beacon by which all that happens in the English Country House Mystery is guided. Then follow some early accounts, showing the influences of Walpole, Burns, and other romantic novelists. Then several classical accounts, from the rivals of Sherlock Holmes through the work of one of the last great ladies of the English mystery, Christianna Brand. Some important variants are interspersed, most notably: the inverted story, in which the perpetrator and his methods are known, and the means of detection alone engages us; the Country House Mystery as humor and satire, with P.G. Wodehouse's Jeeves as the pluperfect servant ensnared in the crime; the English Country House Gothic thriller, in which whodunit and how are subordinated to scaring the stuffing out of the poor reader. At the conclusion, there are few end-of-the-cycle Country House mysteries where the postwar realities assert themselves quite strongly. And then, a sweet to conclude: Holmes again, in a final bow to the tradition. - Introduction.
22 stories by Agatha Christie, Ngaio Marsh, Dorothy L. Sayers, Margery Allingham, G.K. Chesterton, Wilkie Collins, Arthur Conan Doyle, P.D. James, and others. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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I thoroughly enjoyed this set of short stories and can highly recommend them. ( )