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Chargement... The Girl in the Cellarpar Patricia Wentworth
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. I really enjoyed the last third of this book. This was an audiobook and it seemed to me that I kept listening to the same conversation over and over being shared with the different characters. The title explains the premise. Wentworth seems to like amnesia victims stories and this is the 2nd of 5 that I've read. A woman sitting on basement stairs in the dark realizes that there's a dead woman on the floor in front of her. She picks a handbag and flashlight but the only indentification is a letter in the purse. Is she the dead woman or the victim. She only knows she didn't kill her. Fortunately for her she runs into Miss Silver who tells her what to do. 'Er was maar een ding dat zij wel wist. En dat er onder aan de trap een dode lag.' Een jong meisje staat in het donker op een keldertrap in een vreemd huis. In paniek vlucht ze weg. Ze weet niet hoe ze daar gekomen is. Ze weet niet wie ze is. Ze kent alleen haar eigen voornaam: Anne. Het enige aanknopingspunt met haar verleden is een brief in haar tas. Op advies van miss Silver gaat ze naar het adres dat in de brief genoemd wordt. Maar daar wachten haar nieuwe verschrikkingen ... At the beginning of the book a girl is aware that she is sitting on stone steps looking out into 'dead unbroken dark'. Slowly she comes to realise that she is in the cellar of a house and on the cellar floor below her 'someone is lying dead'. This is an interesting and tense mystery thriller which feels slightly dated, but is an enjoyable read nonetheless. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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Fiction.
Mystery.
HTML: A tale of memory loss and murder starring a sleuth who "has her place in detective fiction as surely as Lord Peter Wimsey or Hercule Poirot" (Manchester Evening News). She awakes in a dark place. A young woman with a shattered memory, she knows neither who she is nor how she came to be in this abandoned house. All she possesses is a faint sense that someone is lying dead at the foot of the stairs. Horrifyingly, she is correct. In the cellar lies a young woman, her body broken, her head split, her life undone by a revolver's shell. The amnesiac flees and finally has a stroke of luck: She meets Maud Silver. A dowdy governess turned daring detective, Miss Silver sees immediately that something is wrong. She comforts the confused young woman, and coaxes out of her what little story she can tell. The memory of the body sets Miss Silver on a fantastic adventureâ??the last written by Patricia Wentworth, and one of the most thrilling of them all. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Google Books — Chargement... GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)823.912Literature English English fiction Modern Period 1901-1999 1901-1945Classification de la Bibliothèque du CongrèsÉvaluationMoyenne:
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The book opens with a young woman sitting on the stairs of a pitch-black cellar. She does not know who she is, or where she is, or why, and she can see nothing, but she is sure that somewhere below her in the cellar someone is lying dead on the floor. Who is it? Who is she herself? How did she get here?
Fortunately, when she works up the courage to leave the house, she soon runs into Miss Silver on a bus. Miss Silver, being a very perceptive governess-turned-enquiry-agent, sees her distress and engages her in conversation. Together they come up with a plan that will eventually lead to her regaining her memory and discovering the murderer of the girl in the cellar.
This one has it all. Amnesia, murder, mistaken identity, family squabbles over money, shifty lowlifes up to no good, and of course a nice healthy romance that comes to fruition at the end. And shining through it all, the steady hands and brain of Miss Silver, knitting steadily throughout. Happy sighs all around. ( )