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Chargement... The Corpse That Never Was (1963)par Brett Halliday
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Appartient à la sérieMichael Shayne (46)
Mike Shayne finds strange secrets hidden beneath the cover of a grisly double suicide It's 10:30 pm, and Mike Shayne is sipping cognac, ruminating on the perfection of Lucy Hamilton's fried chicken, when a shotgun fires upstairs. Following the acrid stench of gunpowder to a locked door halfway down the hall, Shayne has no choice but to batter it down, tumbling face first into the scene of a particularly ugly double suicide. The woman lies on the floor in the middle of the sitting room, her face twisted by the deadly kiss of cyanide. A few feet beyond her body is what remains of a man, his head obliterated by the shotgun's blast. The woman's father is one of Miami's power brokers, and he refuses to believe that his daughter would end her life over a silly affair. Isn't it possible, he asks, that she was murdered? Convinced or not, Shayne is the only man ruthless enough to find out. The Corpse That Never Was is the 45th book in the Mike Shayne Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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later used as a house name for the Mike Shayne series. Top notch writers followed Dressner's lead and put out nearly eighty Shayne detective novels. No matter who actually wrote them, when you pick
up a Mike Shayne novel, you know you are getting a sharp, focused private eye mystery that is eminently readable.
The Corpse That Never Was is a locked room mystery with a mystery that is perplexing throughout. It begins with a domestic scene with Shayne and his sexy secretary Lucy Hamilton having dinner in her apartment in a scene guaranteed to satisfy female Shayne fans hoping
for Shayne to make his arrangements with Ms. Hamilton somewhat more permanent.
This novel is all about Shayne unlocking a baffling who done it and how puzzle. It lacks some of the action and gunfire and Fistfights of other Shayne novels although it features a few unsightly corpses.
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