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Chargement... Murder with a Pastpar Ellery Queen
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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. Originally written in 1963, at first the characters seemed a bit too stereotypical. But the mystery of who killed a shady character named, Cox, in a motel room, and that amateur sleuth, Dave Tully, whose gun was the weapon used, sets out to clear his wife, Ruth's name, outweighs the tale's dated feel. His wife goes missing at the same time that the victim was found, and Tully hounds the lead detective (Smith) on the case to find Ruth, while he also tries to find answers on his own that link his wife's past to the dead man. He seesaws back and forth between declaring his wife's innocence and doubting her fidelity, adding emotional tension. It's the very capable narrator/reader, Mark Peckman, and the so-many twists and turns in the storyline, plus the secondary characters' back stories that became the hook for me, and why I rated this a four-star listen. ( ) aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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Who killed Cox, the robber? Was it Ruth Tully, who visited Crandall Cox on the night of his death, and who might have decided to quench a torrid past with a spray of bullets? What about Sandra Jean, the knock-'em-dead beauty, who knew more than she was telling about the sudden demise of blackmailer Cox? Or had some past scandal driven lawyer Ollie Hurst and his wife, Norma, to claim the blackmailer's life? Dave Tully didn't know who the killer was, but if he didn't find out fast, the price of failure could be death ... Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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