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A carregar... The Big Bow Mystery (1892)por Israel Zangwill
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. I gave it about 75 pages our of 160 but I just could not continue. It just isn't my style. The Perfect Crime aka The Big Bow Mystery (by Israel Zangwill). One of the few mystery books outside of Agatha Christie's works with about the same degree of 'omg! Why didn't I think of that?!' without over-employing the thrill and suspense factors—as crime novels should be. Its only shortcoming is probably the excessive (and distracting) number of abstract overtures about 'the Useful' and 'the Beautiful', which are more annoying than useful contributors to the plot. #TheBigBowMystery #ThePerfectCrime #IsraelZangwill #MurderMystery #CrimeNovels #Book #Review #AFYReviews Perhaps the first "locked room" mystery, this book has lost the power to surprise after over a hundred years, but it is still a good read thanks to the author's rather modern style. A wry sense of humor runs through it, starting with Zangwill's opening note. The story sags a bit in the middle and would have been better at about two-thirds of its length, but the narrative is always engaging. Luckily my Kindle's built-in dictionary included the occasional archaic English word Zangwill (spell checker recommendations for Zangwill include Pigswill!) throws in. You will probably guess the murderer before you're halfway through, but that's okay. There is still a lot of pleasure to be had here, and even so, Zangwill's ending has its surprises. sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
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The first in a new series of classic detective stories from the vaults of HarperCollins is the world's first locked-room mystery, a seemingly impossible crime story as powerful as any that have copied the scenario since. "The Detective Story Club", launched by Collins in 1929, was a clearing house for the best and most ingenious crime stories of the age, chosen by a select committee of experts. Now, almost 90 years later, these books are the classics of the Golden Age, republished at last with the same popular cover designs that appealed to their original readers. Originally published as The Big Bow Mystery in 1891, and re-published by the Detective Club to coincide with a new film version called 'The Perfect Crime', Israel Zangwill's novel invented the concept of the 'locked room mystery' and influenced almost every crime writer thereafter. 'A man is murdered for no apparent reason. He has no enemies and there seemed to be no motive for anyone murdering him. No clues remained and the instrument with which the murder was committed could not be traced. The door of the room in which the body was discovered was locked and bolted on the inside, both windows were latched, and there was no trace of any intruder. The greatest detectives in the land were puzzled. Here indeed was the perfect crime, the work of a master mind. Can you solve the problem which baffled Scotland Yard for so long, until at last the missing link in the chain of evidence was revealed?' This new edition includes a brand new introduction by the Golden Age crime expert, Dr John Curran, author of 'Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks'. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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