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A carregar... Swan Song (original 1947; edição 2017)por Edmund Crispin (Autor)
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. This is the last Crispin book I intend to read. He comes off as too arch by half for my enjoyment. A writer who wants to show off how clever he is, but the story is not all that clever. The method of murder was obvious and therefore the murderer obvious as well, in spite of the distractions the author tried to provide. I gagged my way to the end, but no more. ( ) Cuando una encopetada compañía de ópera recala en Oxford para poner en marcha la primera producción posbélica de Los maestros cantores de Núremberg, de Wagner, la felicidad que reina en el ambiente pronto quedará ensombrecida por la aparición del odioso y molesto tenor Edwin Shorthouse. Todo el mundo tiene un motivo personal para odiar con toda su alma a Shorthouse, pero ¿quién de los presentes será tan torpe como para acabar con él ahorcándole y apuñalándole en su propio camerino, cerrado por dentro? Como dice Edmund Crispin en la primera línea de esta perspicaz novela: «Pocas criaturas hay en el mundo más estúpidas que un cantante». It's the first post-war performance of Die Meistersinger, at Oxford, but the lead singer is found hanged in his dressing room. It looks like suicide but he was detested by everyone in the company, and Gervase Fen investigates. The usual cliche characters and unlikely whirlwind romances, but Fen is witty and fun as always. I'm sure if I knew anything about the opera I would have picked up on more of the subtleties. sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
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As inventive as Agatha Christie, as hilarious as P.G. Wodehouse - discover the delightful detective stories of Edmund Crispin. Crime fiction at its quirkiest and best. When an opera company gathers in Oxford for the first post-war production of Wagner's Die Meistersinger its happiness is soon soured by the discovery that the unpleasant Edwin Shorthouse will be singing a leading role. Nearly everyone involved has reason to loathe Shorthouse but who amongst them has the fiendish ingenuity to kill him in his own locked dressing room? In the course of this entertaining adventure, eccentric Oxford don and amateur sleuth Gervase Fen has to unravel two murders, cope with the unpredictability of the artistic temperament, and attempt to encourage the course of true love. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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