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Chargement... Le Belvédère (1955)par 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. Synopsis: A self-indulgent woman is keeping her daughter in slavery and preventing her from marrying the man of her dreams. Two men are trying to buy their house, but the daughter is resisting this since the house actually belongs to her. Miss Silver steps in to help the daughter and to protect here from charlatans and murders. Review: Although the treatment of women makes me cringe, the plots are pretty good. In all her books there is a murder and a couple who have some sort of barrier to their marriage. There is always a happy ending. I kept hoping the mother would be killed sooner rather than later. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Appartient à la sérieMiss Silver (29)
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HTML: When a controlling old woman is murdered, her caretaking daughter is the prime suspect: "Miss Silver is marvelous" (Daily Mail). Althea Graham might have had a life of her own, had it not been for her mother. But when her father died she inherited her bitter, temperamental parent along with the house, and she has borne that burden ever since. She nearly escaped once, but her engagement to Nicholas Carey caused her mother to fall into illness, convincing Althea to keep living with her until the sickness claimed her life. That was five years ago, and Mrs. Graham is as fit as ever. Althea's gloom lifts when Nicholas returns, and it appears that love may bloom again. Mother clings as tightly as ever, of course, but Althea has hope once more. Then murder comes to their household, and the young woman's last chance at happiness is dashed foreverâ??unless Maud Silver, the gentlewoman detective, can save the day. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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There were obvious references to previous books, but no spoilers; tangential characters in earlier mysteries are now the focus of this one. The murder could not have happened to a more deserving victim, and generally, the plotting was rather weak, not that I think about it. The murderer becomes rather obvious so that there’s no real reveal, just a crises averted and justice served. There’s also a connection to the Gordon Riots which lends an air of fun to the story, though when I write it like that it doesn’t make sense. Nothing fun about the Gordon Riots, except the link to the present day story is, but I can’t be more specific than that without spoiling.
A fun, traditional mystery. ( )