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Chargement... Skeleton Hill (2009)par Peter Lovesey
   Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre.   ritaer | Aug 26, 2021 |   ) Ma_Washigeri | Jan 23, 2021 |  )1  addunn3 | Dec 19, 2020 | ) njcur | Jul 14, 2018 | Two of the persons reenacting the 1643 English Civil War battle of Lansdown Hill find a skeleton while looking for something else. They assume it's the body of a soldier who fell in the real battle. One of them, Rupert, is a lecturer in history from Bristol. He goes missing. The skeleton is rediscovered and turns out not to be what Rupert and Dave thought. Inspector Diamond believes the two cases are connected, but his boss, Georgina, does not. She wants Bristol to head the Rupert case. Diamond takes over that, leaving his second, Keith, in charge of the skeleton case. The killer or killers took care to make the skeleton unidentifiable. Too bad for them that they didn't remove the clothes. The coincidence there reminds me of the one in Rex Stout's The Mother Hunt. (Inspector Diamond is no Nero Wolfe, but he does figure things out -- eventually.) Why no one reported the murder victim makes sense once a trip to London establishes who the victim probably was. The members of the Lansdown Society do not prove to be as helpful as Diamond hoped, but they're not useless. I liked the Bristol officers as well as Diamond's usual team. The book has a sense of humor. At one point Georgina lends Diamond her expensive car. No, he doesn't crash it, but what happens does his bank account no good. There's also drama. The London adventure ends in a trip to a hospital. There were some things I figured out before our hero, but I had not fixed on whodunit. Simon Prebble is an excellent narrator. (  ) JalenV | Mar 15, 2018 | aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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On Lansdown Hill, near Bath, England, a battle between Roundheads and Cavaliers that took place over 350 years ago is annually reenacted. Two of the reenactors discover a skeleton that is female, headless, and only about twenty years old. One of them, a professor who played a Cavalier, is later found murdered. In the course of his investigation, Peter Diamond butts heads with the group of vigilantes who call themselves the Lansdown Society, discovering in the process that his boss Georgina is a member. She resolves to sideline Diamond, but matters don't pan out in accordance with her plans. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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