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Chargement... Appleby Talks Againpar Michael Innes
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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. A collection of short stories featuring Sir John Appleby. The usual pleasant mixture of detection, games, and puns. ( ) Michael Innes and his creation, Inspector Appleby, are always pleasant companions. I have commented in regard to the Appleby novels I have read that Innes sometimes appears to be writing just to amuse himself. Even so, the plots are full of complexity and, while you are unlikely to figure them out, there is a pleasure in being immersed in them. In this collection of short stories, however, the plots are so thin and Appleby's solutions so quick that it is more like reading one of those old Minute Mysteries. If you are an Innes fan, you will probably read quickly through this as I did--but you won't come away with much substance. Most of the stories are not just short, they are short-short. The ones that have some length just ramble on a bit longer, but don't introduce much more in the way of important detail. In these stories, Appleby is in Sherlock Holmes mode. His senses and detection skills exceed everyone else's, and he produces a solution just about the time the reader is getting settled in to the story. But I'm sure Innes was at least amusing himself. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Appartient à la sérieInspector Appleby (15)
Ralph Dangerfield, an Edwardian playwright who belonged to the smartest young set of his day, kept a scandalous diary recording the intimate details of his own life and those of his friends. After his death, it was believed that his mother had burnt the incriminating evidence, but fifty years later, a famous collector of literary curiosities claims to have the diary in his possession and threatens to blackmail fashionable London with belated secrets about people now in respectable old age. Sir John Appleby reveals how he uncovered this unscrupulous crime and talks about his key role in seventeen more intriguing cases. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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