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A carregar... Appleby at Allington (1968)por Michael Innes
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. It is really fun to read Michael Innes; mostly because you can't get more than a few paragraphs before you're wondering, "what on earth does that word mean?" and hoping that you've got the gist from the context. Appleby has hit retirement age at the point of this story, which makes it a nice slow-paced one for those who aren't insistent that every detective have an Archie Goodwin involved. The puzzle teeters towards the over-convoluted, but the scenery is wonderfully drawn, and it's very enjoyable to work towards solving the mystery. I thought that Appleby missed an obvious key question earlier in the book that would have cut out fifty pages or so, but then my copy only comes in at around 160 already, which by today's standards makes it hardly there at all. A short read, but of course it's made up for since you have to follow Innes' phenomenal command of his language. One of the finest mystery writers of a fine generation of them, and probably the most intellectual of them all. sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
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Sir John Appleby dines one evening at Allington Park, the Georgian home of his acquaintance Owain Allington, who is new to the area. His curiosity is aroused when Allington mentions his nephew and heir to the estate, Martin Allington, whose name Appleby recognises. The evening comes to an end but just as Appleby is leaving, they find a dead man - electrocuted in the son et lumiSre box which had been installed in the grounds. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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As ever it's Appleby's urbanity and Innes's language that make it fun to read rather than the mystery itself. ( )