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Chargement... The Transcendental Murder (1964)par Jane Langton
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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. Started pretty slow but by the time the crime was committed I was hooked, it's the first book in the series and I'll be reading more of them. ( ) I'm surprised (given how much I loved the Langton family series) that these books should be so "meh" for me. I read a later one, and reviewers mentioned it had lost some of its earlier sparkle, so I went back to the beginning, and still, "meh." (Less than "meh," really). None of the characters engaged, there seemed to be no plot to speak of (in the first 1/5 of the book, which ought to be enough to get things going), and it only came alive in one sequence when a gullible dupe began quoting forged letters from literary luminaries--not enough to save it for me. On to other books--there's no shortage of them! (Note: 5 stars = amazing, wonderful, 4 = very good book, 3 = decent read, 2 = disappointing, 1 = awful, just awful. I'm fairly good at picking for myself so end up with a lot of 4s). I feel a lot of readers automatically render any book they enjoy 5, but I grade on a curve! The year: 1967. The place: public library, Tulare, Calif. The book: The Transcendental Murder. I had just learned about the Transcendentalists in high school English, and here was the big word in the title of a mystery novel. I read it and loved it. More than four decades later, I can still remember the thrill of discovering Mary and Homer, Alice Herpitude (what a great name!), Mrs. Bewley's message from Jesus—even the anecdotes involving upside down violin music and decorating Homer's tie with cucumber and banana slices. This is Langdon's first published mystery and one of her best. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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The citizens of Concord, Massachusetts, never tire of their heritage. For decades, the intellectuals of this little hamlet have continued endless debates about Concord's favorite sons: Emerson, Hawthorne, Thoreau, and their contemporaries. Concord's latter-day transcendental scholars are a strange bunch, but none is more peculiar than Homer Kelly, an expert on Emerson and on homicide. An old-fashioned murder is about to put both skills to the test. At a meeting of the town's intellectuals, Ernest Goss produces a cache of saucy love letters written by the men and women of the transcendentalist sect. Although Homer chortles at the idea that Louisa May Alcott and Ralph Waldo Emerson might have had a fling, Goss insists the letters are real. He never gets a chance to prove it. Soon after he is found killed by a musket ball. The past may not be dead, but Goss certainly is. The Transcendental Murder marks the first appearance for Langston's amateur sleuth Homer Kelly. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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