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A carregar... The Dead Assassin: The Paranormal Casebooks of Sir Arthur Conan Doylepor Vaughn Entwistle
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Oscar Wilde are back in another supernatural mystery! This is the second book in the series and it is not necessary to have read the previous book. I loved the humor and banter between Arthur and Oscar as they tried to decipher the clues and solve another case. My only complaint is why, why, why did you have to do that thing near the end! No spoilers. I was lucky to get an advanced readers copy of this book which comes out on June 9. Put it on your list of reads if you are a fan of historical mysteries with a lot of humor, adventure, and a touch of the paranormal. While you wait be sure to check out the first book in the series-- The Revenant of Thraxton Hall : the paranormal casebooks of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle if you haven't read it yet. sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
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"1895. Victorian England trembles on the verge of hysteria. Terrorist bombs are detonating around the Capitol and every foreigner is suspected of being an Anarchist lurking beneath a cape. Dr. Arthur Conan Doyle is summoned to the scene of a gruesome crime that has baffled and outraged Scotland Yard's best. A senior member of Her Majesty's government has been brutally murdered, and the body of his attacker lies close by--riddled with bullets. More perplexing, one of the attending detectives recognizes the dead assassin as Charlie Higginbotham, a local Cockney pickpocket and petty thief. Higginbotham is not just an improbable suspect, but an impossible suspect, for the young detective watched him take the drop two weeks previously, hanged at Newgate Prison. Conan Doyle calls in his friend Oscar Wilde for assistance and soon the two authors find themselves swept up in an investigation so bizarre it defies conventional wisdom and puts the lives of their loved ones, the Nation, and even the Monarch herself in dire peril. The murders continue, committed by a shadowy cadre of seemingly unstoppable assassins. As the sinister plot unravels, an implausible theory becomes the only possible solution: someone is reanimating the corpses of executed criminals and sending them shambling through the London fog... and programmed for murder. "-- Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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I wanted to like this book since I was quite happy when I was approved for this book a little while ago. But I just couldn't get into the story. It should be very interesting; I mean here we have Arthur Conan Doyle and Oscar Wilde trying to find out the truth about a seemingly dead assassin while more people are getting killed. However, I found the story to be lacking something to make it special and not even towards the end when everything started to come together did I feel any excitement towards the story. I think the biggest problem was that it lacked surprises. There was no question about the identities of the suspects were for me and frankly, here we have Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes and it feels like it takes him forever to puzzle things together. Another thing, it's true that he met his second wife while his first wife was still alive, but I had some real problem with Doyle courting Jean Leckie while Louisa is at home dying from tuberculosis. And, then when he believes that Leckie's life is in danger he invites her home. For yes, let's take home his new love to meet his dying wife. Asshole!
So, no, the book was not for me. Not even Oscar Wilde that I liked very much in the first book was up to my liking in this book. There is a scene in this book when they are undercover and Wilde just gives them away in such idiotic eye-rolling way that I wonder what the hell he is thinking!
I received this copy from the publisher through NetGalley in return for an honest review! Thank you! ( )