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Chargement... The Victoria Vanishes: A Peculiar Crimes Unit Mystery (édition 2008)par Christopher Fowler
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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. Not at all what I expected from ‘Peculiar Crimes’. I originally picked this up in an Audible sale on the basis of a lot of rave reviews of both writer and narrator. It is not the first in the series though the ending could leave you thinking that it is the last. I found the story hard to get into with quite a lengthy opening section devoted to a group of colleagues at a wake, all of whom seemed to be fed up with life and each other. Arthur Bryant, giving the ‘eulogy’, had a voice and manner which I found unappealing. This section didn’t seem to be leading anywhere and, wondering when the story was going to start, I was tempted it bin it and listen to something else. It did grow on me though and I stuck with it to the end. The narration is good with well-defined voices given to all the characters. The plot is very convoluted and hard to keep track of at times. I might have enjoyed it more if I had read earlier books in the series.
There’s always a serious point to Fowler’s drolly mannered mysteries, and here it’s the future of London’s historic drinking establishments — many of them visited in the course of this devious puzzle. Appartient à la sériePrix et récompenses
Returning to the Victoria Cross pub hours after witnessing the murder of a woman, Detective Arthur Bryant is stunned to discover that the pub itself has vanished and the street around it has mysteriously aged, and calls in the Peculiar Crimes Unit to track down a killer who is stalking London's oldest watering holes. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Google Books — Chargement... GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)823.914Literature English & Old English literatures English fiction Modern Period 1901-1999 1945-1999Classification de la Bibliothèque du CongrèsÉvaluationMoyenne:
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It commences shortly after The White Corridor. The Peculiar Crimes Unit throws a wake for their late pathologist, whose death formed one of the threads in the previous book. On the way home, Arthur Bryant, the most eccentric of the unit's two elderly detectives, notices a woman going into a pub. When she is later found dead in the street, it turns out that she was murdered, but Bryant starts to doubt his memory when there is no pub at the place where he saw her - it was demo!ished many years ago. The resolution is one of the series' usual rather unlikely ones, yet the enjoyment in this book is how the various characters interact, the dry humour, and the setting of London, which as in most of the series, is a character in itself. The ending is poignant and I think ties in with something I read, that Fowler originally planned the series as six books, but he was obviously persuaded to write more, and I look forward to reading the rest. ( )