Pamela Branch (1920–1967)
Autor(a) de The Wooden Overcoat
About the Author
Séries
Obras por Pamela Branch
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome legal
- Branch, Pamela Jean
- Data de nascimento
- 1920-11-27
- Data de falecimento
- 1967
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- Sri Lanka (birth)
England (parentage, education) - Local de nascimento
- Ceylon (Sri Lanka)
- Causa da morte
- cancer
- Locais de residência
- Ceylon (Sri Lanka)
Kensington, London, England, UK
Paris, France
Kashmir, India
Cyprus
Ireland - Educação
- Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
- Ocupações
- artist (painter)
actor
racehorse trainer
Membros
Críticas
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 5
- Membros
- 254
- Popularidade
- #90,187
- Avaliação
- 3.6
- Críticas
- 16
- ISBN
- 19
- Línguas
- 1
- Marcado como favorito
- 1
The Asterisk Club resides in a home next door to two couples who are each odious in their own way. Members of the Asterisk Club begin dropping dead in their neighbors’ home, and the neighboring couples try very hard to hush the deaths up and keep the dead bodies under wraps, but they are not terribly successful.
The Asterisk Club has a resident tomcat that gets threatened with death and has crystal glassware thrown at him. The neighbors have a resident dog that gets kicked and threatened with demise as well. And rats are smashed to death with tennis rackets and one poor creature is even glued alive to a piece of board…and then killed.
So, a lot of the characters are brutal murderers who got off scot-free, all of the characters are positively despicable, and all of the action occurs against a backdrop of rampant animal cruelty. And the author just assumes that readers are going to find all of this uproariously hilarious.
I found myself wishing everyone in the book would get brutally murdered, and I didn’t care a fig who the culprit was; I gave up reading about a third of the way through this tasteless piece of whatnot.… (mais)