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Sto caricando le informazioni... Mystery Man (originale 2009; edizione 2012)di Colin Bateman (Autore), No Alibis Dublin bookstore, missing PI nextdoor, funny, neurotic owner
Informazioni sull'operaMystery Man di Colin Bateman (2009)
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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 found this compulsively readable and almost equal parts funny and cringe. The Man with No Name who runs No Alibis, a crime fiction bookshop in Belfast, is a walking bundle of neuroses, and it was distressing how many of those I could relate to. (The sheer number of everyday things that the Man nopes out of, I have noped out of at least once in my life with precisely the same sort of self-protective anxiety.) It’s definitely a darker brand of humour but not darker in terms of crime: it’s mostly a puzzle sort of crime with a reasonably low body count. I would read another book in the series if I could get a hold of it. ( ) Mystery Man by Colin Bateman is the first book in his series about the owner of an Irish book store that specializes in mysteries who also takes on the duties of a private investigator for some clients. It started when the private investigator next door to the bookshop disappeared and his clients appealed to him for help. I have read Bateman before so was quite aware that his books are always darkly funny and full of satire so I was prepared for the many laugh out loud moment that this book provided. Our main character is a whiny hypochondriac with OCD and still lives at home with his mother. Surprisingly, he has a crush on the pretty girl who works in the jewellery story across the street and actually manages to start a relationship with her. His cases start off simple, having to track down a pair of stolen leather pants or locate a missing girlfriend who disappeared after her boyfriend compared her ears to jugs. But the cases take a very serious turn when he finds himself surrounded by murdered victims and looking for Nazis. I thoroughly enjoyed this first book and have already picked up two more for the future. I am looking forward to the humorous literary references, the outlandish cases, and the many twists and turns that this author provides his readers. Quite funny with a very quirky narrator. The narrator is the owner of a mystery book store who starts investigating small cases when the P.I. next door closes his business suddenly. He gets involved in a case that might involve murder which is really too much for this paranoid, hypochondriac wants to handle. Sometimes I just wanted to shake the narrator but the voice is strong, clear, and FUNNY! I almost dropped a star b/c it ends on a cliffhanger. Right after the narrator talks about how he hates when mysteries end on a cliffhanger. Very funny book set in Belfast, in a bookshop that specializes in mystery fiction. The owner is a cross between Bernard Black (of Black Books) and Sheldon Cooper (Big Bang Theory). The owner gets caught up in solving some simple little mysteries because the owner of a detective agency next door appears to have closed up shop and people think he has some connection with the agency. He eventually gets drawn into something really nasty. Black humour. A treat. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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A superbly gripping and blackly funny mystery by the king of the comic crime caper. He's the Man With No Name and the owner of No Alibis, a mystery bookshop in Belfast. But when a detective agency next door goes bust, the agency's clients start calling into his shop asking him to solve their cases. It's not as if there's any danger involved. It's an easy way to sell books to his gullible customers and Alison, the beautiful girl in the jewellery shop across the road, will surely be impressed. Except she's not - because she can see the bigger picture. And when they break into the shuttered shop next door on a dare, they have their answer. Suddenly they're catapulted along a murder trail which leads them from small-time publishing to Nazi concentration camps and serial killers... Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)823.914Literature English English fiction Modern Period 1901-1999 1945-1999Classificazione LCVotoMedia:
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