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A carregar... Nine Times Nine (1940)por Anthony Boucher
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. I was attracted to this book because it said that it contained a “locked room mystery” which sounded interesting and I had participated in a “locked room” mystery party once and found it fun. I liked some of the story but I found that parts of it were very hard to follow. I believe part of the problem may have been due to the fact that the book was written 81 years ago, (1940). Neither the police nor Sister Ursula had any of the conveniences available at that period to help the reader solve the crime. I couldn’t even think in terms of what was available then. I also found that I was liking the characters less and less and had almost no patience with them I read on. The mystery was worked out in the end… but not by me. I’m giving the book a 3 but I’m sure that it was more me than it was the story that lost it a higher rating. ( ) sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
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Sister Ursula, a Los Angeles nun who makes a habit of sleuthing, tackles a locked room murder in this "delightful . . . original" mystery classic (The New York Times Book Review). Anthony Boucher was a literary renaissance man: an Edgar Award-winning mystery reviewer, an esteemed editor of the Hugo Award-winning Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, a prolific scriptwriter of radio mystery programs, and an accomplished writer of mystery, science fiction, fantasy, and horror. With a particular fondness for the locked room mystery, Boucher created such iconic sleuths as Los Angeles PI Fergus O'Breen, amateur sleuth Sister Ursula, and alcoholic ex-cop Nick Noble. The guilty better say their prayers when Sister Ursula is on the case--in this acclaimed mystery novel, which remains "as expert as a fencer's skill and as fresh as a daisy" (The New York Times Book Review). The head of the Children of Light, cloaked in his yellow robe, has placed the ancient curse of the Nine Times Nine upon Wolfe Harrigan, the famed author and debunker of cults, who naturally scoffs. The next day, Wolfe's assistant, Matt Duncan, sees something in the window of Wolfe's study that throws him into a panic: a man in a yellow robe. When Wolfe is found alone and dead inside the study, the police are stumped. All the windows were locked, and Wolfe's sister, who was sitting right outside the door, claims she saw no one come out. The baffling case doesn't add up for family friend Sister Ursula. But she'll need a miracle if she hopes to divine the truth before the killer strikes again . . . Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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