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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Detections of Dr. Sam: Johnson (1960)di Lillian De La Torre
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. The cleverness of the concept --one of the first significant series of historical mysteries, with Sam Johnson as the detective and Boswell, of course, as his Watson (a parallel already suggested by Sherlock Holmes "I am lost without my Boswell.") -- does not always match the quality of the mysteries themselves. However, the author has a good feeling for 18th century style, unlike many modern "historical" mystery writers.. ( ) This reads like Sherlock Holmes and John Watson, with the more ornate language and manners of an earlier time added on top of them. If you are a fan of Samuel Johnson and his time period, this book of short stories is sure to amuse. If you are not used to the vocabulary and mannerism of Johnson's time, the book may be a bit of a slog, but I found it charming in its attempts to be accurate to its source material. I will be seeking out the other Samuel Johnson detective fiction by this author as I found these enjoyable. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
Eight exquisite mystery stories set in London, starring Dr. Samuel Johnson, one of the greatest minds of the eighteenth century. In 1775, as the British Empire is about to be cracked by the earthquake of the American Revolution, twenty English families join in the ghoulish bargain known as a tontine. Each puts £5,000 into a common fund to be held in trust for their children with the terrible stipulation that the money will go to the last child left alive. Such a bargain should take seventy or eighty years to come to fruition, but there is a curse upon this tontine. Sixteen of the twenty children are dead within four years--and the survivors have no one to turn to but the great Dr. Sam Johnson. The seventy-year-old scholar has seen his share of trickery, corruption, and murder, but he's never encountered anything quite as chilling as "The Tontine Curse." In this story, and the seven others included in this volume, Dr. Johnson and his assistant, biographer James Boswell, pit their wits against the darkest mysteries of the Enlightenment. In this charming, brilliant series, author Lillian de la Torre features Johnson and Boswell, real-life forerunners of Holmes and Watson, in an assortment of "excellent detective puzzles" (The New York Times). Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Classificazione LCVotoMedia:
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