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Chargement... Death and the Conjuror: A Locked-Room Mystery (2022)par Tom Mead
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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. Pitch-perfect, entertaining mystery in the Golden Age tradition. Three impossible crimes rolled into one good book. ( ) Death and the Conjuror - T. Mead Audio performance by Jake Ruddle 3 stars Joseph Specter is a retired illusionist. He is drafted to assist Scotland Yard with an apparently inexplicable locked room murder. A locked room murder which coincides with a seemingly impossible art theft and an additional ‘locked elevator murder’. It’s a complicated plot with many of the classic suspects of vintage murders. There’s great 1930’s London atmosphere. Poirot would have been in his element. There was nothing original to the plot or the setting to make this book a standout. It was a good puzzle and entertaining in that way. The book lacked any humor or emotional connection between the characters. The audio performance was soporific. Jake Ruddle did nothing to increase the tension or keep my interest. If I try the next book in this series, I will read it. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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Fiction.
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A magician-turned-sleuth in pre-war London solves three impossible crimes In 1930s London, celebrity psychiatrist Anselm Rees is discovered dead in his locked study, and there seems to be no way that a killer could have escaped unseen. There are no clues, no witnesses, and no evidence of the murder weapon. Stumped by the confounding scene, the Scotland Yard detective on the case calls on retired stage magician-turned-part-time sleuth Joseph Spector. For who better to make sense of the impossible than one who traffics in illusions? Spector has a knack for explaining the inexplicable, but even he finds that there is more to this mystery than meets the eye. As he and the Inspector interview the colorful cast of suspects among the psychiatrist's patients and household, they uncover no shortage of dark secrets-or motives for murder. When the investigation dovetails into that of an apparently-impossible theft, the detectives consider the possibility that the two transgressions are related. And when a second murder occurs, this time in an impenetrable elevator, they realize that the crime wave will become even more deadly unless they can catch the culprit soon. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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