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Chargement... The Affair of the Mysterious Letterpar Alexis Hall
   Books Read in 2020 (3,816) Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre.   ) ditdan | Jan 21, 2024 |  At less than 50%, I decided to bail & return it to the library. Sad, because I usually like this author's work. This one just wasn't grabbing me. (  ) terriaminute | Dec 4, 2022 |  ) Adamantium | Aug 21, 2022 | I liked John Wyndham but Haas was a completely irredeemable Holmes and I didn't enjoy reading about her at all. She was selfish in a way that I just couldn't care reading about. Too bad John couldn't go off and have his own adventures. In Holmes pastiches, there's usually a certain ambiguity about why the Holmes characters keeps Watson around, but I think this was the most extreme case I'd seen. The mystery aspect wasn't helped by the fact that one of my (outlandish) theories about the letters turned out to be true... and in a way I didn't like. But hey, if this works for you, don't let me rain on your enjoyment! (  ) natcontrary | Aug 16, 2022 |  ) McBeezie | Jul 27, 2022 | aucune critique | ajouter une critique
"Upon returning to the city of Khelathra-Ven after five years fighting a war in another universe, Captain John Wyndham finds himself looking for somewhere to live, and expediency forces him to take lodgings at 221b Martyrs Walk. His new housemate is Ms. Shaharazad Haas, a consulting sorceress of mercurial temperament and dark reputation. When Ms. Haas is enlisted to solve a case of blackmail against one of her former lovers, Miss Eirene Viola, Captain Wyndham finds himself drawn into a mystery that leads him from the salons of the literary set to the drowned back-alleys of Ven and even to a prison cell in lost Carcosa. Along the way he is beset by criminals, menaced by pirates, molested by vampires, almost devoured by mad gods, and called upon to punch a shark. But the further the companions go in pursuit of the elusive blackmailer, the more impossible the case appears. Then again, in Khelathra-Ven reality is flexible, and the impossible is Ms. Haas' stock-in-trade"-- Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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