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Chargement... The China Governess (1962)par Margery Allingham
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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. My first DNF of "2022." (My reading year is Dec 25 to Dec 25). This was billed as a golden age mystery. Part of the reason might be that I have it on audio and the accents are so heavy that I have a difficult time understanding the voices, even when I turn the speed down to 80%. Had I know that was book # 17 in the series, I would have never gotten it! The book was 306 pages and I'm calling it quits after 72. My library does not have a hard copy and certainly not going to buy one; hence a DNF. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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Timothy Kinnit needs the help of private detective Albert Campion. Kinnit is rich, handsome and successful, but his past is a mystery to him and he needs Campion to find out how it connects him to the notorious Turk Street Mile slum. In addition, his own illustrious adopted family has a sinister secret of its own - involving a murderous nineteenth-century governess - that must also be brought to light by Campion's investigations. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Google Books — Chargement... GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)823.912Literature English & Old English literatures English fiction Modern Period 1901-1999 1901-1945Classification de la Bibliothèque du CongrèsÉvaluationMoyenne:
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Set about 20 years after WWII and Timothy, about to elope with his fiancee, finds out that he was adopted and the man he thought was his father isnt. Meanwhile, in a slum part of London that was bombed out during the war, a new start is threatened by a model flat being trashed by an unknown assailant.
Everything comes together, pulling together the fall out from the Blitz and the confusion of evacuation, blackmail, murder, and alcoholics.
Not the best Campion book, (too much focus on the other characters in the book to allow Campion to come through) and not my favourite - the fact that it took over a week to complete what is quite a short book shows this. ( )