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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Mark Twain Murders (1989)di Edith Skom
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. good - like the professor character - will look for others ( ) The edition I have of this book was published the year I arrived at "Midwestern" University. I never met the author, who taught writing there for 30 years. She passed away in 2012. This was her first mystery and was reasonably well-received (https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-edith-skom-obituary-20160218-story.html). As mysteries go, it's colorful, but a bit light on the detection side and heavier on the romance. Our heroes gradually narrow in on the murderer, but very little is figured out until the standard "let me explain this before I kill you" chapter. The underlying resolution is well worked, but the suspects never stood clearly apart as well as they need to to raise the proper suspense. Life in the library with its study carrells is well depicted. The English faculty felt less convincing to me. Even taken satirically, they seemed more like caricatures than those in Schumacher's more humorous "Dear Committee Members". My one big annoyance was the invocation several times of the main character deciding not to tell the handsome FBI agent a possibly important clue. Still, an enjoyable read. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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Skulduggery was afoot in the campus library at Midwestern University. Sinister students were razoring pages from periodicals and stealing obscure essays for their term papers. A bookish thief was making a bundle smuggling out valuable first editions for resale. And in the South Tower, a killer was stalking a coed. Even so, Professor Beth Austin was shocked--and intrigued--to find a handsome FBI agent in the English Department. Soon they had joined forces, delving into the lives of her eccentric colleagues...and straying into the dark shadows of the groves of academe where someone's hands were stained with blood. 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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