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Chargement... Rim of the Pit (An American Mystery Classic) (original 1944; édition 2023)par Hake Talbot (Auteur)
Information sur l'oeuvreAu seuil de l'abime par Hake Talbot (1944) Aucun Chargement...
Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Essentially a very long episode of Scooby Doo, but more boring. ( ) Written in 1944, Rim of the Pit begins as a group of people meet at a lodge in the woods in New England. They are there for various reasons, but the main event is to be a seance to contact the medium's dead husband. As the seance begins, even the most skeptical of the group starts to believe in the powers of the supernatural, as a series of bizarre events begins to take place, ending in murder by what seems to be the spirit of the dead man. Left with a myriad of clues that upon inspection present themselves as impossible (including a man who flies), Rogan Kincaid (the main character of this book), takes it upon himself to try to get to the bottom of things. That's the bare bones of the story, but I'll leave it to you to read and find out the rest. So. I liked it; I didn't guess the solution -- in fact, the one I came up with didn't even come close. I would recommend it for people who enjoy those impossible-crime stories (of which I am quite fond), and for people who want a touch of the supernatural in their reading. The language may be off-putting to some at times; but remember, before you go crying "racist," that this was written in the 1940s and it's not fair to judge the tone of the novel by today's standards. Overall, a fun read. If you see this book at a used book sale, pick it up. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Appartient à la sérieRogan Kincaid (2)
"I came here to make a dead man change his mind." So begins a creepy and unusual mystery celebrated to this day as one of the greatest "impossible crime" novels of all time. When a family's promise to protect the beloved pine grove of their dead father creates a financial strain, a seance is suggested to summon the ghost of the late logger and ask its permission. A mixed group of skeptics and believers convene at a snow-bound lodge to call the spirit with a group that includes a gambler, a businessman, a clairvoyant, a professor, and a refugee, among others. With so many diverse interests at the table, the tensions run high - but when one of the participants ends up dead, there is reason to suspect that a nefarious spirit is to blame. The body is discovered in a locked room, impenetrable from the outside - just one of many bizarre and inexplicable circumstances surrounding the scene of the crime. There is also the trail of footprints in the snow, beginning and ending amid a field of untouched powder; another on the roof, with the tracks leading for a short distance before vanishing into nothingness; and, there are fingerprints on a gun suspended at an unreachable height Supernatural undertones and eerie atmosphere clear away in the third act to present a logical conclusion to the case, teasing out the clues and murder methods that unscrupulous readers may have missed. With its off-beat exposition, puzzling plot and exceptional prose, Rim of the Pit is a cult classic of the Golden Age era deserving of a wide audience today. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Google Books — Chargement... GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)813.52Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1900-1944Classification de la Bibliothèque du CongrèsÉvaluationMoyenne:
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