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Sto caricando le informazioni... Murder Included (originale 1950; edizione 2017)di Joanna Cannan (Autore)
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. I think I only bought this book because I was buying a number of the green Penguins (Cyril Hare etc.) from a bookseller a few years ago and this one was among them and I thought it would be cruel to separate these books which seemed to have belonged to the same person (not many of the old English Penguins available from used booksellers in Germany). At any rate, I'm glad I did and I'm glad I finally got around to reading it. If you are looking for a light read with plenty of humour, you won't go wrong with this one: In a fit of being sensible and wanting a good English upbringing for her daughter (who is of somewhat indeterminable age and a pure delight, even though I usually dislike children in fiction) Bunny has left her carefree life in France in order to marry Sir Charles d'Estray, a decision that causes her to recite "You've made your bed ..." every morning. Sir Charles has a draughty mansion and a family who frowns upon "French" habits (such as having breakfast in your bedroom), and his finances are a complete mess, causing Bunny to turn said mansion into a guesthouse. Unfortunately, one of the guests (and relatives) checks out rather prematurely, and as she wasn't the most pleasant person on god's green earth, the local police have their work cut out and decide to call in help from London. Naturally, the expert from London initially spends a lot of his time despairing over how things are done in the country before he gets around to doing some actual detecting and things are beginning to look bad for Bunny ... nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
"Literate and amusing, with exceptionally believable characters." ? - The New Yorker. A free-spirited widow travels to the Riviera, where she meets a lord, accepts his proposal of marriage, and returns with him to England. Bunny, now the wife of Sir Charles d'Estray, is mistress of a vast estate that's fallen into decline. To rescue the property from bankruptcy, Bunny introduces the successful but distasteful measure of accepting paying guests. In this atmosphere of deeply resented change, a poisonous plant has become the bitter brew of murder. And as a quarrelsome cast of d'Estrays, their servants and guests, and the mystified local police wander through a maze of mutual suspicion, Bunny finds herself not only the chief suspect but also a prime candidate for murder. "Told with a devastating detachment which is equally brutal toward the English gentry, its middle-class emulators, and upstart cockney detectives."? - The New York Times. AUTHOR: In addition to detective novels, Joanna Maxwell Cannan (1896-1961) wrote a series of children's books about horses and riding. The daughter of an Oxford dean, Cannan served as a nurse during World War I, married one of her soldier patients, and produced nearly a book a year from the 1920s onward. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)823.912Literature English & Old English literatures English fiction Modern Period 1901-1999 1901-1945Classificazione LCVotoMedia:
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It's also brilliant! For me, it really is up there with Dorothy L Sayers' whodunits. Joanna Cannan is as erudite and talented as the great DLS and I warmly recommend this book to any Golden Age enthusiasts looking for 'new' authors to explore. ( )