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Chargement... My Late Wives (1946)par Carter Dickson
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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. En septiembre de 1930, Angela Phipps, hija de un pastor protestante y beneficiaria de una pequeña pero holgada herencia, conoció en la avenida costanera de Bournemouth a Roger Bewlay, un hombre reposado y cortés. Al cabo de dos semanas se casaron. En 1932, Elizabeth Mosnar, rubia, flacucha, artística y desesperadamente sincera, conoció en un concierto, en el Queen's Hall, a Roger Bowdoin. Al cabo de un tiempo se casaron. En la primavera de 1933, Andrea Cooper, secretaria de un consultorio quiromántico en Oxfor Street... Not by any means one of the author's best books, although it starts with an intriguing idea. A man called Roger Bewlay is a serial murderer, whose system usually involves marrying a woman for her money, after which she vanishes without trace. The problem for the police (apart from finding the man) is that they can't work out what he has done with the bodies. This has all happened some years before the book proper starts, and one of the central characters, an actor called Bruce Ransom, is sent a script about a killer who is obviously based on Bewlay. To test out the play's denouement, he goes to a country town and pretends to be the killer himself. The problem is that all too often the action depends on people behaving in a totally unbelievable manner - you find yourself asking "but when X was talking about Y, surely he would have mentioned Z?" This particularly applies to the ending, where one character is put in mortal danger while some others watch and do nothing about it. Probably recommendable to completists only. En septiembre de 1930, Angela Phipps, hija de un pastor protestante y beneficiaria de una pequeña, pero holgada herencia, conoció en la avenida costanera de Bournemouth a Roger Bewlay, hombre reposado y cortés; al cabo de dos semana se casaron. En 1932, Elizabeth Mosnar, rubia, flacucha, artística y desesperadamente sincera, conoció en un concierto, en el Queen´s Hall, a Roger Bowdoin; al cabo de un tiempo se casaron. En la primavera de 1933, Andrés Cooper, secretaria de un consultorio quiromántico en Oxford Street... aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Appartient à la sérieSir Henry Merrivale (17) Appartient à la série éditorialeAdey's Locked Room Murders (0611) Est contenu dans
Roger Bewlay presented one of the Yard's great unsolved mysteries. He had certainly killed three women, but left no traces of their bodies. The fourth time there had even been a witness. But just when the police were closing in he had vanished completely. Eleven years later, the actor Bruce Ransom receives a play about the murderer, sent by an unknown writer. His enthusiasm for it sends him off on an extraordinary venture, which soon brings Sir Henry Merrivale down to a Suffolk village for a spine-chilling finale. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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