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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Book of the Crime (1951)di Elizabeth Daly
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. As in Death and Letters, a young woman escapes from an oppressive family, in this case that of her husband, a lame war veteran she married a year before.He had grown cold to her, and had been violently angry when he found her with an account of a particular Victorian trial. She managed to escape with the aid of a nice young man (who promptly fell in love with her), ad took the case to Gamadge. He saw the book was the key to the case, but she did not know what it was. Meanwhile a harmless young workingman is murdered in circumstances implicating the brother and sister of her husband. Gamadge realizes the book id the case of the Tichbounre Claimant and recognizes an imposture is involved (as in Book of the Dead). In tis book Daly restrains her tendency to a sudden revelation of an unexpected ending --one witness's testimony suggests an unexpected result, but it turns out the expected villain is guilty after all. ( ) nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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A strange tome and a terrified wife draw a 1950s antiquarian book dealer into a murder case in this mystery by Agatha Christie's favorite American author. Young Rena Austen, newly wed, is afraid she's made a terrible mistake. Her husband, once a dashingly romantic figure of a wounded war hero, has become a moody lay-about, and they are sharing a gloomy house on the Upper East Side of New York with his unpleasant, always-there family. When her husband reacts in a frighteningly angry way to Rena pulling a particular volume off the library shelf, she has had enough, and flees her home in fear for her life. Thankfully, Henry Gamadge is on hand to solve the mystery of the book--and the dead body that inevitably turns up. "Henry Gamadge will be well remembered as one of the most civilized detectives in fiction, investigating some of the most subtly conceived of criminal cases." --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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